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LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



THE 

HISTORY OF ATHARAEL, 

Chief Priest of a Band of Al-Aryans. 



AJV O UTLINE HIS TOR V OF MAN. 



Written through tl?/ Mediumship of 
U. G. FIGLEY. 

( MAY 311890 ' ) 
Nv^'^^ SH I ngto^*/ 



DEFIANCE, OHIO: 
U. G. FIGLEY. 

1890. 




Entered according to Act of Coiiirress, in the year 1890, 
By r. G. FiGLEY, 
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 



In presenting this little book to the thinking, 
reading public, I have no apologies to offer. This 
book speaks for itself. May 27, 1889, 1 commenced 
writing, under spirit control, in hieroglyphics, the 
book of which this is the translation. June 19, 
1889, the book was finished and contained 68 pages. 
June 20, 1889, I sat for translation, and received 
the introduction. Owing to the exhaustive stram 
upon the system, I waited till December 24, 1889, 
before undertaking further translation ; being 
strongly recuperated, magnetically, I resumed the 
translating, and March 11, 1890,' completed the 
task. The reader is asked to carefully examine 
the story of Atharael, and then judge how much 
man is the slave to conditions, and how much man 
is the maker of circumstances that cause the weal 
or woe of life. Hoping that this little book will 
be of some good to man, it is sent out with the 
regards of a brother. 

U. G. FiGLEY. 

Defiance, Ohio. 



U. G. FiGLEY was born November 18, 1864, on a farm 
eight miles northwest of Defiance, Ohio, which farm his 
father has occupied for nearly fifty years. Mr. Figley has 
received a passably good education, and was brought up to 
believe the Bible and orthodox teachings. But in 1888 he 
became acquainted with the philosophy and phenomena 
of Spiritualism, and became a Spiritualist and a medium 
of various phases, that of inspiration being the strongest. 
Spiritualistic phenomena have manifested in his father's 
family and among his ancestors for years, though not fullv 
understood till a few years ago. He knows that there is a 
life beyond this mortal veil, and that w^hen he has slowly 
climbed the ladder of life, round by round, and has reached 
the top, the angel of death will fold him in his shadowy 
arms, and bear him away to the Summer-land of rest, 
where forever and forever he will live with those he loves, 
and who love him. 



Life in the Stone Age. 



ATHARAEL, THE AL- ARYAN. 

From the great world of the Unseen, I come 
with their greeting to their brothers yet in the 
bonds of flesh. I am Atharael, and I was chief 
priest of a band of Al-Aryans, in old Al-Arya. 
It is so long since I came here that I cannot com- 
pute the time, for it would be in tens of thousands. 
When I lived, the people were bad and warlike, 
and fought with stones and slings, and wrote on 
barics of trees, and warred with animals which the 
world of this day has not seen their like. 

1 can tell of strange people, and governments, 
and nations, of which you have never heard, for 
your histories know nothing of them, but by a 
few bones and shells. I can tell of battles and 
sieges by men who now would be run from with 
horror. I can tell of our worship to the great Al- 
Brahm, the Supreme Mind and Director of the 
universe. I can tell of the creation of man. I can 
tell of his rise from animal to spiritual power. I 
can tell of his struggle from dark to light, for I 
have seen much. I can tell of the wonders of the 
invisible world, but not all, for language could 



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not express its beauties. T can tell but faintly of 
the secret dwelling-place of the great Universal 
Mind called Al-Brahm, who, without form, is 
through all, and in all, directs all from his world 
of aether in the far-away land of shades. 
. I have seen the rise, and progress, and fall of 
the people of the earth, and its changes, and of the 
theory of the creation we believed in, in the time 
when I had a flesh body and roamed over the 
earth ; when my people began to work metals, and 
lay away their stone clubs, and slings, and look 
for somethino; better. The world has orown since 
then, physicallj^ and mentallj^, but the people live 
not so long, nor grow so large, but they are wiser 
and better. 1 have seen so much and can tsU so 
many things that I must be short to give a brief 
history of Atharael, the Al-Arj^an priest who 
worshiped the great Al-Brahm, and talked and 
walked with his dead brethren before he went to 
join them. 

I come to you, my brother, and give you my 
story of what I was when men used no weapons 
but stones, and w^ere not much better than the 
animals they lived among and ate. Many other 
sailors on life's stormy ocean have tried to find 
the secrets of the ages, but they have not done so. 
You may not, but you shall gain a glimpse of 
what was in the early days of man, and I will call 
my band to help you in unfolding a part of the 
book of nature. 

So man}^ many years I've been an angel, 

So many, many years ago I died; 
Of the beauties of the spirit world I live in, 

I coul(l not, could not tell you if I tried. 



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But I can tell of the early days of man, 
Of the perils that he met with every day : 

Of the wonders of the pre-historic world, 
But alas! they all long since have passed away. 

I can tell of many various things 
To the pages of history lost, unknown ; 

In the story of Atharael you will find these — 
Atharael, who lived in the Age of Stone. 



Before commencing this strange history, I 
would say, preliminarily, that there are many testy 
doubters who will pronounce it to be the work of 
a fertile imagination on the part of the medium ; 
but the very appearance of the work, and the 
work itself, will show the fallacy of illogical con- 
clusions. This is said because there are those who 
regard spirits professing to be ancient to be not 
what they claim, that they are youthful spirits in 
the point of age, because they never reveal any- 
thing but what is already known to man. Ancient 
spirits have not progressed so far among the spirit- 
spheres as to forget their earthly attractions, and 
when opportunity offers, favorably, to rescue from 
oblivion the history of early man and his surround- 
ings, such as I will here give, and which has 
never yet been given to the world. 

I have said that I lived in Al-Arya, and the 
world of this day has never heard of such a land. 
But the name of Al-Arya is somewhat familiar. 
Al-Arya is no more ; the waves of the Atlantic 
Ocean roll over its beautiful valleys, and forests, 
and mountains, and populous cities ; and all its 
wondrous monuments of man's ingenuity, rival- 
ing the wonders of Egypt, and Mexico and the 



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Americas, are sporting grounds and toys for the 
under ocean and its horde of saurian monsters, 
many of which have never seen the sunlight or 
been seen by man. Years and centuries after I 
]eft my earthly tenement, Al-Arya sank beneath 
the waves forever, amid the scream of the tornado, 
the dense rumbling of the earthquake, and the 
terror of its human and brute inhabitants. The 
air was filled with birds and the ocean with 
bodies, when Al-Arya sunk, and for days the 
foundations of the deep were in turmoil, and all 
nature seemed as though chaos was at hand. But 
quiet came at length, and nature again became 
serene, and the few Al- Aryans who survived the 
death of their native land, existed only in the 
bordering countries. This much now as to the end 
of Al-Arya's existence. 

When I was a resident of Al-Arya it was a 
large island about 5,000 miles in length, and 2,000 
miles in width, but by our tribal traditions I learned 
that the island at one time extended several thou- 
sand miles further south, but by one of the many 
cataclysms, or general quake of both heaven and 
earth, a large portion of this island was detached 
and sunk, the islands of the South Atlantic and 
Antarctic oceans being its termination. The part 
of Al-Arya in which I spent my early years was 
called Tipke-Doron, and was about the size of 
your State (Ohio). Tipke-Doron was situated at 
the base of and embraced a part of the Lakoto 
Mountains ; the Valley of Dolo, so named from 
its guardian spirit, occupied the greater part of 
the territory. In the southern part of the valley 
was a very beautiful lake called El Zam, covering 



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nearly 200 acres of land, receiving from the north 
the Igro River, which, rising in the Lakoto 
Mountains, coursed its way 600 miles southward 
and eastward, emptying into the Bay of Karto, 
a branch of the Atlantic Ocean, directly west of 
the Canary Islands. 

JVIy early home was on the bank of Lake El- 
Zam, and I remained there, that is, recognized it 
as my home, till I was about 50 years old, when I 
changed my residence to the country north of 
Tipke Doron, called Bal-Dek. Of course my life 
was spent in hunting and fighting, till I became 
weary of such life and devoted my tim^ to do- 
mesticating myself and friends ; for I had learned 
to know that revolutionary methods of life were 
cheerless, and I longed for peace. Living upon 
the bank of the lake, it was but natural that I 
became a very expert swimmer and diver, and was 
almost as much accustomed to life in the water as 
out of it, so that the marine animals became 
familiar with my presence among them so much, 
that I suppose they took me to be one of them — 
and no wonder. Just imagine, if you will, a 
giant man with long black, bushy hair and beard, 
deep, black eyes, seven feet in height, and corres- 
pondingly broad in proportion, his body covered 
with hair, wearing no clothing but a kirtle, and 
strong enough to crush an ordmary man's skull 
with one blow of his fist. 

My people were rugged sons of nature, and 
their days were long in the land. They were 
warlike, it was but natural, for their minds were 
yet strongly clouded with animal propensities ; and 
even yet, after the lapse of thousands of years, 



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the people of your day are not yet freed from 
the instincts of their man animal progenitors. 
Our weapons of warfare were stones thrown by 
mea-ns of slings, and clubs split at the larger end 
in which stones were placed, and securely fastened 
with thongs of skin taken from the body of the 
tuskless elephant, the inner coating, only, of the 
skin, being used. 

Our homes were very rude structures, resem- 
bling to some extent the dwellings of the copper- 
colored Americans, and were usually made of 
poles or small trees torn up by the roots and again 
planted for the walls of the house, the poles be- 
ing chopped down by rudel\^ made axes, one of 
which could not have been raised from the ground 
by three modern men, yet an Al- Aryan could 
swing it with ease. The houses were covered 
with the skins of mammoths, mastodons, and such 
animals, and the partitions were made of the inner 
skin of the lake saurians, finely dressed, and 
decorated with drawings of familiar scenes, 
memoranda of memorable events, and such like; 
and always, on the front wall of every house, was a 
highly finished portrait of Dolo, the tribal god. 

Our household utensils consisted of stoneware 
entirely, and were very rude affairs. Pestles, 
kettles, etc., were found in every house, and beds 
were only made of skins of animals, the beds of 
the older people being a kind of grass covered 
with skins. Every man was a warrior and every 
woman was a drudge, doing all the work, while 
the head of the house spent his time in hunting, 
fishing, or leagued with others in invading the 
neighboring country, or warring with the wild 



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beasts about him. Every tribe had its king, and 
prophet who gave them instructions how to pro- 
ceed in their undertakings, basing his authority 
upon the tribal god, Dolo, who, under certain 
conditions, conversed with these prophets — one 
chief prophet and sub prophets, one for each of 
the 69 districts in which Tipke-Doron was divided, 
each district governed by a sub-king, and he hav- 
ing a judge for every twenty families in his 
district. Our government, therefore, was what 
you would call a liberal kingdom, bordering on 
democracy, every ruler being necessarily strict in 
the management of his state affairs. 

Anterior to- my advent upon the earth, Tipke- 
Doron had been the scene of bloody sieges, and 
battles, and social revolutions, even when it was 
a horror to live; cannibalism being prevalent, 
tribe feasting on tribe, family on family, and for 
the space of 150,000 years before my birth this 
w^as the history of my native land. But for 
several thousand years previous to this event, a 
form of civilization was taking place, as the 
people gradually became less animal m nature, 
and more spiritual. Cannibalism and its affinitized 
savagery existed in my life in such proportion as 
murder occurs in your own land to-day. 

My own father was king of Tipke-Doron, and 
was 70 years old when I was born, and had then 
been king for 40 years. His name w^as Eman- 
Kootoo ; my mother, the queen, was 60 ; her name, 
Zodena. I had fifteen brothers and sisters, six 
brothers and nine sisters; being the fifteenth 
child I could not inherit the kingdom or one of 
its provinces. A sister, 01-Amo, was the eldest 



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child, and became queen 100 3^ears later, at the 
age of 129 years. I was educated only in our 
tribal dialect or language, and was called fluent 
in the written language, such as this book is written 
in. I was the favored one of the family, and 
being eager for a knowledge of all the mysteries 
I saw about me, was given every privilege to 
acquaint myself with nature and her workings, 
and being captain of a force of men in the king's 
army, I, in ten years, had traveled over the 
greater part of Al-Arva, and bad participated in 
enouo^h battles and sieo^es to fill a bulkv volume. 
Two other races of people lived in Al-Arj^a, the 
black people called Ulus, and the brown people 
called Mallies. We were called Incapos, and were 
copper-colored, but of aslightl v different cast than 
your Americans. 

Now, concerning our form of religious worship, 
we usually met in the dusk of the evening, en- 
circling a stone platform, or altar, bearing an 
enoTavino: of .Dolo, our tribal o:od. A tuskless 
elephant was slaughtered and quartered upon this 
altar, and around and about the sacrifice was 
placed various kinds of aromatic herbs and plants. 
This being done, the assembly stood, each in the 
form of a cross, about the altar, and the priest in 
charge of the sacrifice repeated the following 
prayer or petition : O thou god of our welfare, 
Dolo, the star-eyed, the great, the good, do thou 
tell us in what way we may be more successful in 
our pursuits; tell us how to be happier, and bet- 
ter, and more friendly with each other and with 
all. Tell us what is best for us to know, for 
ignorant and weak as we are, we call on thee, the 



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great and good Dolo, to lead us and guide us as 
thou thinkest best. Let not thy vengeance or 
curse be upon us, but with thy great army over- 
shadow us and follow us onward whither we go, 
for our betterment, and if we err in our dealings 
with the world, do not depart from us but lead us 
backward to where we should have gone. O 
now do thou manifest thyself to us personally or 
by agents, and tell us what we here humbly 
petition for in reverence and awe. Almanazor 
Almadara." 

This being completed, the assembly chants a 
tribal hymn of tribute to Dolo, and the sacrifice 
is set on fire, and while it is burning the assembly 
slowly walks around it, continuing their chant but 
in a livelier strain. Usually before the assembly 
has executed its sixth circuit, a bright light ap- 
pears above the sacrifice and slowly growing 
larger it assumes a circular form perhaps 25 feet 
in diameter, in the center of which circle appears 
Dolo himself or some one or more of his agents, 
who either speaks his wishes or by symbols repre- 
sents them. Sometimes the priest or some one of 
the procession would fall as if dead, and when 
raised to his feet would sing to them or speak 
with the authority of Dolo, or exhort them to be 
more generous in their lives, or more honorable in 
their pursuits. Again, at times the whole assembly 
would be stricken motionless while hazy forms 
would envelop them completely, or enchanting 
music would start them from their lethargic 
state, and a grand dance would ensue, no one 
being able to withhold. Then a mist would form 
in front of the altar, and which soon would 



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assume the form of some person, mayhap of some 
friend or relative of the assembly, and holding 
converse with them awhile, affectionately take 
the dearest friend b}^ the hand and then gradually 
disappear. This ceremony of calling up Dolo or 
his agents usually lasted two or three hours ac- 
cording to our system of time, and one-third less 
according to yours. Our time-pieces were smoothly 
dressed slabs of stone engraved with different 
characters and each having a different color, each 
representing an hour of time. When the sun had 
passed over one it had recorded an hour as being 
passed. Our assemblies were our chief delight, 
and were generally held at the end of what you 
call a week, but what we called a mork. 

All of Tipke-Doron was not as intellectually 
advanced as was El-Zam, the native land of the 
writer. It was an exception to the general state 
of the country. We w^ere more domestic and less 
warlike in our natures and habits, therefore were 
less disposed to give trouble to the good king 
Eman-Kootoo. El-Zam was his residence, the res- 
idence of the kings of Tipke-Doron for 5,000 years, 
the family of which I was a member holding con- 
trol of the government for that length of time. 
The country was not as thickh^ infested by wild 
and ferocious animals, and man therefore became 
less addicted to bloodshed, and except when serv- 
ing their allotted time in the king's army, were at 
home doing nothing except to hunt and fish, and 
sometimes helping their wives gather herbs and 
berries for food. Even then, they by means of 
the stone pestle crushed certain herbs and berries, 
and extracting the juice used it as a drink, and in- 



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toxication sometimes occurred when the juices had 
become fermented. 

In my earlier years I distinctly remember that 
the district in which I Uved was filled with horrid 
animals and birds and reptiles, and wild men from 
other countries would invade the land ; animals 
in no way represented by the beast world of your 
day. Some of them 40 feet in height, of the ele- 
phant type as to bulk, but with mouths of cavern- 
ous size, filled with horrible jagged teeth, and 
with voices whose roar would shake the hills and 
whose tread could be heard for a great distance. 
Some had scaly hides that could not be penetrated. 
We killed them by reaching the most vulnerable 
part — the eye, or perchance the mouth or throat. 
Birds were of gigantic form; many of them had 
no wings, and with beaks capable of tearing to 
pieces a human body. Reptiles many times larger 
and longer than any known in the present day^ 
and of horrible propensities ; and man in his early 
years had to be vicious and warlike to sustain life. 
But by degrees the country became less troubled 
with these enemies of man, but man suffered ere 
this came to pass. But it is well to pass from ad- 
versity to enjoyment, though obscurity surrounds 
and all the known evils seek to hold back the in- 
quirer. So it is with man. Savage as he was 
then, he must step by step work himself from that 
condition and his welfare is then v^orthy of com- 
mendation. Even yet, after a period ol hundreds 
of thousands of years, man has not progressed 
entirely from the conditions surroundino; the Al- 
Aryans in Tipke-Doron, Bal-Dek and the other 
states not being excepted. Time enough yet. 



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Now before passing forward to the main part 
of this work — my life — I will give the tribal tra- 
ditions concerning the creation of the world and 
the creation of man. At one time, says the tradi- 
tion, there was no sun, no moon, no stars, all was 
void ; the Unknown, onl\^, existed. Then the Un- 
known said for the vapors and gases and floating 
ocean of formless particles to separate, and each 
go unto its own kind. Long ages passed ere this 
took place, the subtle Unknown still foUowins: 
through all, and nicely separating kind by kind. 
Finally enormous globes were formed and then 
tumult reigned for a time. The Unknown was 
in all, and quake after quake shook the globes, 
and shock after shock well nigh rended them to 
naught. 

But why did the people know this ? Although 
the Incapos were rugged sons of nature, and but 
a few steps removed from the animal kingdom — 
the sensual, instinct animal kingdom — they had 
observed that when leaves fell from trees they 
would remain stationary for a time, or else revolve 
and be wafted in wavelets of wind, then fall to 
the ground. They noticed that when two dry 
sticks were rubbed together fire was produced ; 
also, that stone struck upon stone or ore upon ore 
would produce flashes of light. They noticed 
that bodies of water or streams drying up would 
produce grasses and weeds, and that water when 
heated in stone kettles or vessels over the fire, 
would evaporate into the atmosphere, and would 
sometimes be so strong as to explode the vessel. 
They noticed that when the country was being 
more fully developed, socially, the fiercer animals 



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and reptiles would retire, or unaccountably be- 
come extinct. They noticed that kinds of herbs 
or fruits would in certain conditions of fermenta- 
tion be very poisonous, and in other conditions 
be very effective, medicinally or otherwise. So, by 
takin^^ heed to these manv relations to their do- 
mestic character, they could by dint of consider- 
able reasoning and meditating, arrive at the 
conclusion that the visible universe must have 
been organized in some such manner. And they 
knew that there was some law, or rather intelli- 
gence, that superintended this creation. They 
called it the Unknown, and in your day thew^orld 
knows no more. 

The tradition goes on to say that these newly 
created globes were not all alike, as all creative 
forces are not all alike ; a different arrangement 
in the beginning would cause a different ending. 
Vegetable and animal life must appear at the 
ricrht stao'e, and the same strang-e laws caused 
their being so unlike. Man of course was a 
combination of all the higher elements of the 
vegetable, and mineral, and animal kingdoms, for 
he caused them to be submissive to him. Man 
was a distinct creation, according to the tradition, 
for no animal bore strong relations to him in every 
way, in form or feature, though he possessed 
qualities of some of each. Even ignorant as they 
were — serai savage, slowly ascending being that 
he was — man knew that he was different from the 
other living creatures, and in his dumb way longed 
for something he had not, yet wished to have, and 
knew not what it was he longed for. The Un- 
known took from the congregated elements the 

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parts that were more refined, and putting them 
together, fashioned the new being — man. The 
tradition dc;es not say how this creation was made, 
or the length of time necessary for the creation. 
But I shall, in another part of this work, give what 
I have learned (since my communion with spirits 
and spirit life) concerning the creation, and the 
creation of man as well; and it is something that 
has never yet been given to the world as I shall 
give it. 

By common brute instinct, man in his early 
days noticed that life or living things appeared in 
water before they appeared on land, and after they 
appeared in the water tiiey would become rooted 
in the soil at the bottom of the water, or near the 
bank, or else become entirely transferred to the 
land as plants and vegetables, or as insects and 
small branches of the anim^al kind. It was noticed 
that some kinds were ungainly, and huge, and 
horrible to look upon ; and they argued that man 
must have been created upon the same principle 
or unknown something, which they blindly groped 
for but could not grasp. They knew the differ- 
ence between day and night, heat and cold ; that 
there were animals that lived in the water only, 
and some that lived only on the land, and others 
that lived both in the water and on the land ; that 
some walked, and some crawled, and some flew 
with wings, and some swam, and some had all 
these properties. They noticed that some were 
men like themselves, but more ferocious and of a 
different color; and some looked somewhat like 
men but had tails by which they swung in the 
trees. They knew all these things, but were w^oe- 



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fully ignorant of the cause; they could only see 
what was before them, and in a way reason to 
themselves that they were different and must be 
superior to them. They tried to give credit and 
worship to Dolo, as being the doer of these won- 
derful things, but he would not have it. He told 
the people there was a Power in whose grasp he 
v/as as naught — that he only did as he was com- 
pelled to do by the mysterious influence that over- 
powered him. That he was but the mouthpiece 
of a regiment of invisibles who were steadily 
working to lift mankind onto a higher plane of 
life and action. That he was daily in communi- 
cation with the immortals who had lived on other 
worlds, and who had advanced far greater in do- 
mestic and national life than we had, and were 
so for the reason that their worlds had been crea- 
ted ages before ours, that people were created 
ages before our race was, and the}^ had only fol- 
lowed the Incomprehensible Something's will in 
impressing man that he was better than he 
thought he was. 

Dolo had lived thousands of years before my 
time, and as he was richer in intellect than his 
fellow-men, was, after his transition from earth to 
the air, delegated to watch over his people, and do 
what was possible to better their condition. This 
much I found by the evening meetings at which 
Dolo often appeared, but I will withhold further 
communication on this matter till I reach the 
point in this history which tells of my work as a 
missionary among the people. 

J do not 'suppose my earl}^ years up to the age 
of 20 need to be much spoken of, as they were 



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spent in playing about the king*s quarters in El- 
Zam ; hunting, fishing, fighting, and was as 
strong at ten years as an average man in your day. 
It is all clear to me now as to why this was. In 
my young days many a time have I been saved 
from being torn to pieces and eaten by flying 
beasts, or prowling dragons, or crawling saurians, 
and mammoth hzards, by some of the king's guards. 
Many a time did I tight single-handed w^ith wild 
animals, only escaping after rending their jaws or 
limbs asunder with m}" powerful hands. Many a 
time did I tight with the men with tails, and slay 
them or be slain myself. It was horrible — my 
younger years — it was tight or die. But man 
fairly held his own at that day. He lived to 
be very old, and families were large, the country 
was well populated, and the brute creation warred 
for existence rather than did man — the brutes 
were so much stronger than man that he was 
often discouraged. 

When I was about 20 years old I became con- 
nected with the king's armv, and soon after was 
among the number who traveled north into Bal- 
Dek, to drive out the Ulus, a band of black, hor- 
rible men, who were warring with the Northern 
Incapos. We traveled along the Igro River, 
10,000 strong. Just imagine, if you can, an army 
of hairy men, seven feet in height, strong as three 
times as many men of to-day, armed with slings 
and stone clubs, keeping time to the monotonous 
drone of a reecl tife and a rude drum, sometimes 
accompanied by the beating together of two 
plates of hammered metal. Through the jungles 
lining the river we went, carefully guarding 



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against surprise by tlie chattering men with tails, 
and the usual horde of beasts and reptiles. After 
a number of days' hard marching, we came to the 
Lakoto Mountains, which w^e supposed we would 
have to cross. Following the course of the rivei*, 
we were surprised to find that it flowed from be- 
neath the mountains, and not through them. It was 
the first time any man of that company had 
been to that place. If the river came from be> 
neath the mountains, from where did it proceed ? 
Camping on the spot that night, we were lulled 
to sleep by the dreamy roar of the water, and in 
the morning we anew inspected the surroundings, 
and decided that if we could or-o throuofh the 
mountains, and not across them, we would be- 
come famous as explorers, and gain time we 
would lose by going over the rocks, in danger of 
falling into the crevices, over precipices, or into 
the crater of a volcano said to be on the other 
side. 

Accordingly we searched carefully for an 
opening in the mountain side. At last we were 
rewarded by finding a cave, the mouth of which 
was covered with shrubbery of various kinds. 
After considerable work in making torches and 
lighting them, we pushed resolutely into the un- 
known ahead. All was dark, not a sound broke 
the ominous silence, save the deep breathing of 
the advancing army, the patter of their feet, or 
the guttural exclamation of some unlucky soldier 
who chanced to stumble. The night of death was 
not darker or more horrible than that march 
through the bowels of the mountain. After 
traveling some distance, those in advance re- 



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ported that gusts of air came from the right, and 
after peering intently into the darkness, the 
torch bearers found that we were walking near 
the edge of the subterranean river we had known 
as the Igro. Soon the torch- bearers to the left 
reported that the floor was slimy, and a dripping 
sound tokened the presence of a mineral spring. 
Very soon we were dazzled with the surround- 
ings. Stalactites and stalagmites glittering with 
every known tint and hue, appeared to our 
startled vision. The paradise Dolo had told us he 
had seen in the upper world appeared to be re- 
flected in this shimmering grotto. Pillars, and 
monuments, and tables, and every conceivable 
form was here represented in this hidden work of 
nature. Passing this grotto, w^e cautiously felt 
our way for some distance, till the word came 
from the commander that the advance stood on 
the brink of a precipice — that it was impossible 
to go further. 

Finall}' it was found that we could travel to 
the right, along the side of the precipice, but soon 
w^e were again brought to a halt. We must again 
go to the north. Some of the most venturesome 
of the company, obtaining leave of the commander, 
attempted to explore the surroundings, and suc- 
ceeded in finding an opening leading into a 
chamber, which, upon entering, they found fo 
have such an exhilarating atmosphere ,that they 
danced, and shouted, and sang, till the whole 
command was in an uproar and nearly deafened 
with their clamor. Suddenly their mood changed 
and they began chanting, mournfull3\ a tribal 
dirge. We found that they had stumbled upon a 



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tomb. Eeturning from the tomb, and finding 
that I was anxious to inspect the cavern, I ac- 
companied the guide and found that the cavern 
was lined with bodies of both man and beast, all 
in an excellent state of preservation. I have 
since found that the buoyant spirits of the men 
were caused b}^ the presence of a strong volume of 
ether in the close atmosphere of the cave. These 
human bodies were somewhat lighter in color 
than we were, and the hairy covering of the 
bodies was lighter also. Some of them were web- 
handed and web footed ; evidentl}^ they had ex- 
isted long ages before my time, for no tradition 
spoke of such beings. Bones and ashes and rude 
resemblances to clothing told us that these people 
certainly must have lived in these caves. Further 
search showed us additional chambers nearly all 
of which contained human bodies or human 
bones. These bodies were so ice like that we 
agreed that they must have been frozen to death, 
which appeared strange to me then, for our 
country, though not tropical, was moderatel}^ 
temperate in climate. We found few implements 
of warfare or domestic use, and those we did find 
were strangely fashioned almost like our own. 
After I became a priest I found who these people 
were and when they lived. 

Leaving these caves we joined the moving 
column, and after several hours hard marching, 
some of the time climbing what appeared to be a 
natural spiral stairwaj^, we perceived light ahead 
aside from the torches, and soon emerged into 
tlie free air at sunset, having been a whole day in 
passing through this natural tunnel. We camped 



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that night at the base of these mountains over- 
shadowing the rising plain of Sohkrates. The 
river Igro was not visible. It indeed came from 
beneath the mountains. Ere morning broke we 
were awakened b}^ the affrighted shouts of the 
guards, and none too soon. The volcano Tooko 
had again become active and was even then belch- 
ing forth flames and cinders, and ashes, hundreds 
of feet into the air. The scene was awful. But 
manv times since then have I beheld more thrill- 
ing, and sublime, and awful spectacles. The 
very mountains shook with the violence of the 
volcano. To stay longer was impossible. The 
very air became murkv, and we scented the com- 
in^ dano^er. For miles and miles out on the 
plain this lurid light of coming evil was reflected, 
and we hastened with all possible speed. Far in 
advance of us dark-lookino' fio^ures w^ere seen 
scurrying away. They were the advance guard 
of the Ulus. They had seen us emerge from the 
mountain, aiid had watched our movements, and 
like us were compelled to flee from the wrath of 
the awakened volcano. Looking backward we 
saw that the huge crater had overflowed, and was 
sending down the mountain side a blazing river 
of fire, and its smoke rose mountain high. 

By daylight we had come up Avith the main 
body of Ulus, numbering perhaps 15,000. They 
immediately pounced upon us with the ferocity of 
wild beasts that they were, and a desperate con- 
flict ensued. After an hour's hard figliting, we 
heard the war-ciy of the Incapos of Southern 
Bal-Dek, who had after a day's respite from fight- 
ing the Ulus, come to our aid by following the 



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trail of the Ulus. The Incapos numbered now 
16,000. We surrounded the Ulus, and sought to 
take them prisoners, but they fought us back and 
refused to submit. All day this horrible carnage 
continued, and evening found 5,000 Ulus alive, 
and twice as many Incapos. We slept none that 
night. When morning came the Ulus were gone 
but not defeated. We turned homeward, receiv- 
ing 3,000 Incapo recruits on the way. That even- 
ing as we were keeping watch several miles west 
of the volcano, we were startled at the volley of 
huge stones dropping in our midst, seemingly 
comino^ from the sky. Then a succession of hor- 
rible yells, and the wild beating of a drum., told 
us that what we had looked for had come. Re- 
ceiving re-enforcements, the Ulus had returned to 
the attack, and we knew that it was war to the 
death. There would be no quarter shown, no 
compromise extended. "Ranging ourselves in bat- 
tle array, we awaited the renewal of the strife. 

It seemed horrible to me. I had been recruit- 
ed into the army, and I was compelled to do the 
duty of a veteran. Again it was fight or die. 
The Ulus came on with horrible yells, discharging 
volleys of stones at us with considerable havoc in 
the way of bruises and cuts. Consternation seiz- 
ed us when we soon found that the officer second 
in command had turned traitor and gone over to 
the enemy, hoping to curry favor with them, and 
at the same time eke out a horrible revenge upon 
the commander, for a fancied insult regarding 
the position of the troops. '-Let him go," said 
tlie commander, ''he will only bring his own 
end." 



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Desperately the Ulus attacked us, and as often 
were they repulsed by our slings, and when the 
conflict waxed hotter and hotter in the glare of* 
the still active volcano, our stone clubs came into 
play, and one by one and hundred by hundred, 
the Ulus fell, though they had received 7,000 
re-enforcements. All night and all next day did 
we skirmish and battle, and in the evening not a 
hundred Ulns remained to tell the tale of the bat- 
tles. Ten Ulus had fallen to one Incapo. Half 
of our army returned to El-Zam to tell the story 
of the invasion. Three thousand Bal-Dek Incapos 
remained. The handful of Ulus were knocked 
down with our stone clubs and taken prisoners by 
force. The rebel officer was also taken. ^' The 
curse of Dolo is upon me," he cried, as he crawled 
in the dust ; " I have brought evil to myself, and 
all the Ulus are gone — all dead. There is noth- 
ing for me to do but to die.'' Eising to his feet 
and casting a look of fear at some unseen being 
or object behind him, he sped away toward the 
volcano. Before we could reach him he had 
flung himself into the fiery river coursing down 
the mountain side, and his soul had gone to give 
account to Dolo for its weakness. The Bal-Dek 
Incapos reserved the Ulus for slaves of war, and 
our army returned home. 

In the early morning we entered the mouth 
of the cavern and slowly plodded onward, finding 
that w^e were in no immediate danger from the 
volcano. Midway we w^ere well-nigh suffocated 
by the intensely hot air which rushed through the 
cavern's subterranean sliaft. There was some 
connection between the cavern and the volcano, 



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27 



and we hastened all the faster to regain the out- 
side world. In the middle of the afternoon we 
emerged from this natural tunnel and proceeding 
a few miles further, we encamped for the night. 
Jn the morning we resumed our homeward 
journey, reaching our destination in due time to 
hold an evening council, in which Dolo appeared 
and thanked us for our valor, and told us to be 
good servants of the king and obey his requests, 
as it would be for our good to do so. 

For some time, perhaps several years, after 
our war with the Ulus, we enjoj^ed comparative 
peaceful noss. Then the cloud of war again low- 
ered. The yellow people, the Mallies, to the 
west of us, began making encroachments on our 
territor}^ killing our people, destroying our dwell- 
ings, and laying waste our property. The king, 
my father, ordered out a large army numbering 
12,000, to at once proceed to the seat of war. I 
had been promoted and was now an officer. 
Marching due west, we on the sixth day encoun- 
tered an unforeseen peril. Our advance guards 
while walking upon what appeared to be solid 
ground, suddenly disappeared, and were never 
heard of more. An examination showed that a 
thin film covered a lake of an alkaline substance, 
and which was very deep, and covered a large 
tract of land. After considerable time was spent 
in scouting, we at length found a safe route, and 
proceeding slightly to the northwest, we resumed 
our march, and after several more days' journey- 
ing through jungles and morasses, reached the 
point where the Mallies were devastating the 
countr\\ We were joined soon by 4,000 Incapos, 



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and next da}^ encountered, on a hio:h and rock- 
covered plain, a force of about 18,000 Mallies^ 
who were bent on war and annihilation. Rang- 
ing in battle array, we charged upon them, and 
the day was spent without intermission in horii- 
ble carnage. Six thousand Mallies and five 
thousand Incapos passed from life and action, and 
that night slept in the arms of death. We were 
as usual armed with stone clubs and slings, and 
the Mallies with slings, and poles to which were 
tied a thong holding large stones. The next day 
the conflict was renewed, and about noon the 
general commanding the Mahies was slain. Still 
the ,battle continued with unabated fury, and 
after two days' further fighting, our forces num- 
bered 5,000 and the Mallies numbered about 
2,500. They called for a council, and the officers 
of both armies met on the center of the plain, and 
after a lengthy parle}^, the Mallies agreed to re- 
turn to their own land and forbear further war 
with the Incapos. In this war, fought over se\^- 
eral miles of territory, I was promoted to be cap- 
tain. After the conclusion of the fight, I looked 
over the battle-field, and was sickened at the 
heaps of dead, the blood splashed stones, the rivu- 
lets of blood, and ghastly bodies Avith crushed 
heads and rended limbs. I was sick of war, but 
what could I do? I was in the king's service. 
There I must l emain ten years, and eight years 
was I yet to serve. 

We returned home without any notable mis- 
hap, and after another year's peace (such as those 
times afforded) we were called upon to proceed 
north and west to make Avar against the Ulus 



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29 



again. Numbering 6,000 strong we set out to 
invade the northwest nation of Ulus, and after 
traveling several days we were attacked by a large 
army of the men with tails, who made the day hid- 
eous with their howls and yells, as they assailed us 
with clubs, and branches of trees, and stones, 
and swinging by their tails from trees, fastened 
their claw-like hands in our hair and attempted to 
draw us into their clutches. But they were no 
match for us with our slings and clubs. By the 
hundred their bodies lay rotting among the leaves 
when we returned from our journe\\ Vanquish- 
ing these enemies, we continued our march, and 
after several weeks' hard traveling, the last three 
days of which was on a desert, we reached the 
other side, and had rested but a few hours, when 
we perceived the Ulus advancing across the desert, 
following us, 5,000 strong. We had suffered while 
crossing the desert, for we were without water, 
and the torrid sun beat heavily upon us, very, 
very hot, yet we were strong and withstood the 
sultry heat. 

Apparently the Ulus were as badly famished 
for want of water as we had been. They had 
loaded themselves down with shining stones and 
pieces of ore, which I now know were diamonds 
and other precious stones, gold and silver. Poor 
savages ! little good did it do them, for the bodies 
of all but 50 were left for food for animals or 
were bleached on the sands of the desert. 
Ghoulish vampires tliey were. Their bodies 
were smeared with blood, and they carried pouches 
filled with the blood of animals freshly slaugh- 
tered. They were cannibals. With hoarse cries 



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they came at us, brandishing their spears and 
clubs of elephant bone. But in spite of their skill 
we were eventuall}^ the victors. After some hours' 
terrible fighting the}^ had succeeded in capturing 
about 50 of our force, I being among the number. 
They surrounded us and rushed us away to the 
rear. Tying half of them to trees, I was forced 
to witness a most horrible butchery. With blunt 
knives of bone or stone, these black demons 
murdered my companions by inches. Cutting or 
rather sawing piece by piece, they would eat it 
before their victims' faces with fiendish relish. 
Some of them would sever a vein or artery, and 
soon half a dozen of these human vampires would 
draw" the last drop of blood from his body, which 
was soon torn to pieces and eaten. Before the 
remainder of us could be devoured by these 
ghouls, our army had driven the cannibal army 
backward, and w^e escaped to our own ranks. 
With redoubled fury did we pursue and attack 
the Ulus, and gave no quarter. Several days 
passed by with considerable battling each day, and 
the few remaining Ulas fled from the field. Eesum- 
ing our homeward march, and looking backward, 
we perceived these vampires feasting on the 
bodies of the slain. In this siege we lost 1,500 
men. 

But friends, brothers, I am w^eary of telling 
of bloodshed. I will only say that for ten years 
I was in the king's army, retiring at the age of 
30, having traveled over all of Al-Arya, resting 
or fighting, on the mountain or in the valley ; 
suffering on the arid plains, or w^earily threading 
my wa}^ amid interior jungles, fording swollen 



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31 



streams or shooting the rapids. Such was my life. 

I thought of becoming a priest. I was emi- 
nently fitted for it. I had traveled as much as 
any other man in the country. I had attained 
high honors in the army. I was known to be 
more humane than many others, and was con- 
sidered more intellectual than the many. I was 
of an inquiring disposition, and sought to know 
the " why" of everything I saw. Consulting with 
Tzintzek, our chief priest, he welcomed with joy 
the advent of Atharael as a priest. The ceremony 
by which I was initiated was as follows : At dusk 
of the evening commemorating my fortieth birth- 
day, at El-Zam, the evening sacrifice was duly 
prepared ; and the chief priest taking my hand, at 
the head of the circle, having the next highest 
priest by my other side, made the following invo- 
cation : " O thou great and good Dolo, the leader 
of our band, the king of our land, this night is 
consecrated to thee the prince Atharael. Let the 
shadow of thy love and of those that send thee 
be shed upon him this night. Lead him onvfard 
and upward that it may be for the best that he 
becomes one of us. Bid the Father of All be his 
guide. Teach him what is good for man to know 
and do. Almanado Almanazar." 

At the conclusion of this, we slowly walked 
about the sacrifice which is slowly being consumed. 
Soon lights of various colors flashed about us, and 
the sound of many voices blended into one 
harmonious whole, chanting a beautiful hymn. 
Then I felt an extraordinary sensation — that of 
floating dreamily in the upper air, mingling with 
the shades of the long departed. Then I recov- 



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ered my normal condition to find on either side, 
or rather all about me, a shadowy group whose 
thoughts spolae to my thought and bade me 
rejoice. Then a luminous circle appeared over the 
sacrifice,and Dolo and three other guardian spirits 
presented themselves and spoke at some length on 
the important proceedings of the evening. Then, 
the lake being near at hand, the chief priest ad- 
ministered to me the rite of immersion ; on my 
emerging from the water, a glittering halo ap- 
peared about my head, held by visible angel hands, 
and a voice said : " Ero de noto victa^' which is 
Welcome to thy mission, brother.*' The luminous 
phasma broadened and deepened, and enveloped 
me in its folds. Dolo was with me. Taking me 
by the hand he talked quite earnestly to me for 
some minutes, and then gradually disappeared 
from sight, though I felt or rather sensed his 
presence in different ways. I was now a priest. 

Ever afterward, every day of mv life in the 
body, was 1 conscious of the presence of the in- 
visibles. I saw them in the light of day and 
amid the silent hours of night. They talked to 
me and I to them. I realized that then I had but 
just begun to live in light ; before that I appeared 
to be walking in a gloomy path, full of pitfalls. 
I felt that I was free. 1 was being redeemed. 
From that time up to my fiftieth year I was en- 
gaged in mission work among my brethren, bid- 
ding them to be less warlike in their daily life, 
but yet allow no nation to coerce them, or drag 
them down to a lower level. I saw that these 
rude men were of a higher grade of intellect than 
tlie age of the world would warrant, and I con- 



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33 



sidered that this was because our priests were 
always chastening them, bidding them accept the 
good advice and admonitions given them by Dolo 
and his guardian band of spirits, man\^ of whom 
were from other wwlds and were interested in 
seeking to lead man higher to better life and 
action. I must sa}^ that I was in a measure suc- 
cessful in my efforts. When 50 \^ears old, being 
ratlier richly developed in priestly matters, I 
bethought myself of visiting Bal-Dek, the province 
or state north of Tipke-Doron. 

A guard of 1,000 accompanied me to the 
border, following up the river Igro as on our 
earlier expedition to battle with the Ulus. Arriv- 
ing at the Lakoto Mountains, I selected six of the 
priests accompanying the band, to with me visit 
the cavern containing the bodies of the ancients. 
Of course we selected the night as the best time 
to visit the cave. Fifty of the van remained out- 
side in the passage-way and were witnesses of 
what occurred. Seating oursleves in a circle with 
hands touching, we awaited developments. They 
soon came. A bright light appeared in our midst 
and gradually grew larger, and then there ap- 
peared in this luminous mist the form of an 
ancient whose mortal body lay but a few feet 
distant. He spoke to us as follows : " I am or 
was Kip-Poro, and lived on the plain you called 
Solikrates. I lived on berries and roots and 
herbs. I knew that I lived and that was all. 
One day I died. Standing beside my body I was 
surprised to find that I had been double. Those 
who had died before me were with me again. I 
have roamed free as the wind that blows, ever 



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since then, and have found that I did not live in 
vain. I could tell you more but know not how to 
express me thoughts." Saying this, he vanished. 

Then appeared one whose body la}^ with the 
bones of animals. He said: ''I was Perlikron. 
I lived in this cave. I was a cave-dweller, and 
the bears, and elks, and deer of your time are the 
descendants of those whose bones are here. Kip- 
Poro lived even yet before my time. I can tell 
that men lived in the water in my time — long, 
long ago. They can tell their own story. This 
mountain was my home, and with it 1 was familiar. 
No part of it but what I had visited. With rope 
ladders made of the skins of beasts have I de- 
scended to the fountain head of this mighty river, 
many feet below. Go down the side of yon 
precipice with torches, and you will find a reward 
for your search. I lived as the wild animals lived 
about me. It was a struo:o:le for existence. You 
have seen perilous times, but my day was far 
more horrible. Lakes were disappearing and with 
them many huge water-beasts, and vegetation 
became more luxuriant in proportion. There 
came a time when T had got to be an old man, 
that the air grew cold, and the water became 
solid, and I could no longer move. It was then 
I died and came here. Since then I have learned 
much, but I cannot find words to tell you. I am 
under the guardianship of Dolo and I must go." 

Again the luminous mist formed, and there 
appeared to us therein a merman, a man with web- 
hands and web-feet. Soon he was joined by a 
female who claimed to be his wife. His stor}', 
their story, was: ''We have no names. We 



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35 



existed when there were no other people but our 
kind. We lived in the water and rode upon its 
waves. This land was under water when we 
lived here, and this cave was our watery retreat. 
How shall we tell of our life? Fish were our 
food, except what sea-plants we chose to oc- 
casionally gather. H(5w glorious it was to ride 
gayly on the waves, and play with the sea-birds, 
and frolic among the wonders of the great deep I 
We were hap'py, and never more so than when 
angels floated with us and sang and talked to us 
of the good times to be, when w^e would no more 
battle for life amid the waves, but float with ease 
far away through airy scopes and visit the stars 
we sang of in our sea-revels. Then when we 
were very old, we died and found that indeed it 
had been angels who talked with us. This was 
long, long ago, so long that we cannot tell in 
years. But you ma}^ yet know more of these 
things. We can sta}^ no longer. Farewell." And 
they were gone. 

"Romantic," you say! So thought I, but with 
unmistakable proofs within my normal vision, I 
was certain that this was all true. Other spirits 
came and manifested to us strange ideas of former 
days, and I was more than gratified to know and 
learn that men had not lived in vain. Yet the 
early life of man was still shrouded in mystery to 
me, and I yet hoped to have the problem solved. 
In the morning we left this cave and journeyed a 
few miles onto the plain of Solikrates, w^here I 
was met by a large body of Incapos who had 
selected me to be their priest. Their king, Tehuaco, 
was at the head of the procession, and welcomed 



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me with open arms. He was a grave old man 
nearly loO years old. Their priest had recently 
died, and I was selected to fill his place ; 
agreeable to myself was this announcement. A 
small village named for the queen, Sadi, was m}^ 
future home. After appropriate ceremonies were 
undergone, my old guard bade me good-by and 
returned to El-Zara, king Tehuaco sending a guard 
with them through the mountain tunnel. 

I entered upon a new life. I had some years 
before taken a wife from among the maidens con- 
stituting the queen's guard at El Zam, and was 
the father of two boys. My life henceforth was 
peaceful, comparatively. I at regular intervals 
held evening councils, at which presided, some- 
times by proxy, the guardian spirit of Bal-Dek; 
his name was Zeva, but Avas known to be only an 
under god to one whose only appellation was ^'the 
Nameless." I was a prophet and warned the peo- 
ple of what was to come. Invasions and insur- 
rections were therefore known -days beforehand. 
Thus the years went by, the people slowly grow- 
ing wiser and gentler, and becoming more and 
more acquainted with the mechanic side of life. I 
taught them how to fashion ore from the moun- 
tains into serviceable utensils, by beating them 
into shape with their stone clubs, many of which 
were operated by tying thongs of sldn to them 
and elevating them over posts with cross-bars. 
Then I taught them to fuse the ore by heating in 
stone vessels that had been fire-tested for ages. 
I led them to the foot of the precipice named by 
Perlikron, the cave-dweller, 50 years before, and 
brought back to the city of Sadi, diamonds and 



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37 



gold and silver from an inexhaustible mine, and 
with these precious things adorned the king's 
temple, the first of the kind I had ever seen — a 
stone palace, with ore ornaments glittering in the 
sunlight. It had been the work of years, and 
when it was completed the old king died, and his 
daughter, the princess Yamaze, became queen. 
Then there came troublous times, but not for me. 

In a few short days an invasion was made from 
the north by the Ulus, and the queen was forced 
to fly to the mountains. Many of the Incapos 
were not at home at the time, and the capital of 
Bal-Dek fell into the hands of the northern bar- 
barians. Priests were held as sacred, and I was 
unmolested. The general of the Ulu forces usurped 
the throne and became king, taking the name of 
Toglath. In a few months I had succeeded in in- 
forming the scattered Incapos of the existing state 
of affairs, and Zeva gave me to know that the 
Ulus should be driven from the land. Silently and 
secretly did the Incapos labor for the recovery of 
their homes, and soon the Ulus were one morning 
surprised to find the city in the hands of the In- 
capos, and the false king a prisoner, and the 2;ood 
queen, Yamaze, occupying the throne. For my 
share in this circumlocution of the Ulus, I was 
selected with great pomp to be chief priest of the 
kingdom, numbering 100 districts, and held the 
position to the day of my transition to my ethe- 
real home. 

During the later years of my life the people 
had made marked progress in agriculture and me- 
chanics, and were well equipped from the military 
point of view. Stone implements were still in use, 



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though metal ones were gradually taking their 
place. Wars were becoming few and far between, 
and a semblance to semi civilization w^as taking 
place. More and more every day was I becoming 
educated as well as my intellectual capacity would 
allow, into the mysteries of the unseen, and in 
frequent visits to Tipke-Doron, I was commission- 
ed to impart to the chief priest of El-Zam, the 
state of affairs in Bal-Dek, and such super-mun- 
dane remarks as Zeva desired me to give. My 
sister, 01-Amo, becoming queen. after the death of 
my father, Eman-Kootoo, was desirous that I 
should remain in Tipke-Doron, but understanding 
the nature of my relation to Bal-Dek, and its peo- 
ple, acquiesced in my return ; though frequently I 
visited her as a special commissioner from Queen 
Yamaze. 

In my older years I became more and more in 
the company of spirit friends, and dav by day 
drew nearer to them. My earth life was now 
nearly finished, and I chose one Den-Eion as my 
successor when I should lay aside m\^ mortal 
bod^^ Both Dolo and Zeva visited me and told 
me of the beginning of things, and I will now 
speak of these matters. Dolo and Zeva being very 
intellectual beings, at that stage of man's existence, 
were duly commissioned by the powers above 
them, to attempt to lead man from sensuality to 
higher animal life, and in the course of time to be 
blended with the spiritual. Upon their entrance 
into the life invisible, they were for a time in a 
semi-unconscious state, and scarceh" knew if they 
were on earth or not. They gradually found their 
spirituality unfolding, and saw about them many 



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39 



of their old acquaintances, and all seemed to be 
trying to ascend but could not till a certain por- 
tion of their sensual animosity was extinguished. 
Day by day they saw some ascending to other 
states, and others joining them from their earthly 
tenements. They soon discovered strange spirits 
who they were made to know were teachers, most 
of them from other worlds, who were giving 
lessons on the cause of life, its uses and abuses, its 
mysteries, the duty of man and of spirits ; of course 
these lessons were necessarily very simply arrang- 
ed, even to crudeness, to enable these blighted 
souls to comprehend them fully. 

For hundreds of years did Dolo and Zeva at- 
tend these spirit schools, till they were qualified 
sufficiently to return to earth and by degrees im- 
part the knowledge they had gained, to their 
earth-bound brethren. From these worthy spirits 
I found that this world was indeed but one of 
many among the shining worlds of space. That 
far beyond the vision of man or angel, there ex- 
isted countless numbers of rolling globes, and uni- 
verses of worlds, and suns, and stars, and that the 
people of our world were but a drop in the great, 
illimitable ocean of humanity. Other systems of 
worlds had long been brought into existence, and 
teemed with life, and passed to other conditions, 
ere this little lump of clay we call earth was 
formed from the floating sea of infinitesimal enti- 
ties, ere it had passed from stage to stage till man 
became a living being, of a distinct entity of his 
own. 

L Atharael, have talked with these beings from 
other worlds, and am convinced of their truthful- 



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ness ; I find no cause to object to any of their 
statements, since at times becoming their compan- 
ion. They say that they lived thousands of years 
before my time, and were of a much higher grade 
of beings, of much better spirituality, and powers 
of discernment. From what I gathered from 
their remarks, then they must have been as highly 
advanced in national life as the world is of this 
day, and I am conversant with spirits from other 
planets, who state that they are more fully edu- 
cated, intellectually and physicall^^ than your 
world will be for years to come. I found that 
when these spirits from other worlds had passed 
from earth life, they were educated in many 
things they had inklings of, or had faint desires to 
know, and also were delegated by more spiritually 
unfolded angels to return to earth and teach in 
whatever manner they could, the people most 
needing it — the so-called civilized people occa- 
sionally requiring: greater attention than the so- 
called savages. To teach and be taught, therefore, 
was the plan of action at that day, and is such 
yet. When the people had progressed fai* enough 
from sensual animality to know the difference 
between flesh and spirit, the}^ were reckoned of 
sufficient intelligence to he impressed more natur- 
ally than they would be formerly. Though when 
they knew not the living from the so-called dead 
except by touch, they were often very readily 
taught, and were it not for this reason, man in 
his early life would have been exterminated by 
his own race. 

As to the power that compelled these earth - 
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there were yet angels of a higher grade, and of a 
higher, and soon, ending in the Incomprehensible 
Something, that 1 was delegated to call the great 
Al-Brahm, and whom we worshiped through Zeva 
and his superiors. These angel teachers ascended 
as if by steps, and those of a lower grade knew 
but faintly of those in the far beyond. They 
could only realize what the higher ones knew : 
that far above them existed an illimitable sea of 
aether or refined atmosphere, from which emanated 
rays of life and light, so tiny that the most power- 
ful microscope of modern or future days could 
not discern ; yet to the spiritually unfolded, of a 
high degree, these lines of life and light are dis- 
tinctly visible. This vast ocean was intelligence, 
for these angels received their thoughts and ideas 
from it as rays of light from the sun are perceived 
by man. This something was all-powerful, and 
all know^ing ; for whenever a contraction of its 
manifold parts of one stupendous w^hole was 
made, the silver cord of life for many on earth 
was parted asunder, and universal changes oc- 
curred. This Unknown, or Al-Brahm, the father 
of everything that is, is in all, through all, with 
all, is ail and directs all, from his fountain-head 
and seat of power in the misty beyond of the 
upper air, though apparently detached from them. 
Spirit to spirit only is visible, therefore the un- 
spiritual cannot know Al-Brahm, or God, as it is 
now called. This great power is androgynous, 
both male and female. The father and mother of 
universes and every living thing. 

I learned much concerning the creation of all 
things, but shall reserve it till I give my spiritual 



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experiences, which slightly differ from what I 
learned before my transition, probably owing to 
my being freed from the bonds of flesh, though 
what I learned of the Fountain of Power remains 
the same in general. I learned much more con- 
cerning the attributes of the godhead. I must 
also give a brief outline of the changes taking 
place on the earth since my becoming a resident 
of the starry land. But I must first give the mode 
of my departure from earth-life. I w^as over 200 
years old, and had been a priest 160 years, the last 
hundred years being conversant with the so called 
dead, every day speaking with them face to face. 
I was what you would denominate a materializ- 
ing or etherealizing medium, and a strong one at 
that, hence my strong conceptions of the spirit 
world. Old age had slowly crept upon me, and 
my early years being spent in army life, I was 
aged before my time. The forces of vitality 
slowly sapped, and a year from the day of my 
decline, I dropped asleep in the arms of death, 
and awoke in the arms of eternal life. The tran- 
sition was slow and painless. 

Den-Rion, the new chief priest, was with me 
to the end and closed my mortal eyes, and greeted 
ray spirit on its arrival into the new life. I fii'st 
felt a dreamy languor more than was usual steal- 
ing over me, and which gradually grew stronger 
and stronger. My spiritual eyes opened and I 
perceived an innumerable multitude of angel 
friends waiting with open arms to carry me to my 
new home. Strains of enchanting music filled 
the air, and I felt myself slowly rising from my 
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to move, and almost ere I could realize it, I was out 
of my body and the line connecting me with it was 
severed, and the spiritual eyes of Den-Rion saw 
me ascending to the home on high. I was dead. 
But I was raised from the dead. I was alive for 
evermore. 

Dolo and Zeva escorted me on what I found 
was a magnetic barque on a magnetic river to 
a home prepared for me, many thousand miles 
away. Here in this elegant, yet not magnificent, 
mansion not made with hands, I remained the 
space of time usually amounting to three days. 
This my guides told me was to recuperate my 
fagged spirit, and draw from my ■ body all the 
magnetic entities necessary to the vigor of my 
spirit body. At the end of the three days I was 
permitted to return to earth and witness the burial 
rites over my body. With due solemnity did Den- 
Rion repeat the customary prayer committing to 
Zeva's charge the soul of the departed ; after 
which my body was w^rapped in the burial robe, 
and, as it was my request, placed in the cavern 
containing the bodies of the ancients ; and stones 
were placed at the opening of the cave, that none 
may ever afterward enter except by permit from 
the queen. My official robe w^as my burial gar- 
ment — a finely tanned dress of the skins of 
animals something like the modern rabbit, and 
decorated with drawings of flowers and hiero- 
glyphic accounts of vital import in my life. I 
was no longer a denizen of earth. My lot was 
henceforth with those of the upper air. 

For a long, long time I attended school in the 
fifth grade, three grades higher than the great 



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majority who had preceded me. I learned many 
things that the world of to day is gradually find- 
ing by patient research. I sought to learn the 
secrets of the Most High, and the origin of all 
things. The tribal traditions of my day were 
but crude dreams of what really was. At one 
time there existed only a confused mass of vapors, 
gases and solvents, a floating sea of entity, 
penetrated by the magnetic and electric life-lines 
of the Great Eternal Center, which contained in its 
pent up universe of action the spirit-forms of all 
that was to be, in miniature portrayed. The 
spiritual sought action, and the life-retaining 
currents sought to retain equilibrium, and the 
subtle-working Unknown, in its dual world of 
aether, worked long ages in formulating by its 
chemical crucibles the kinds and kinds of entities 
necessary for the formation of tangible and recog- 
nizable bodies. Ages and ages rolled on amain, 
and the afRnitizing of infinitesimal particles of 
unconscious and conscious life-retaining and life- 
giving entities continued. Each vapor, each gas, 
each entity must in certain proportion be con- 
nected with certain others to formulate^ a given 
kind of bodily entity. 

Finally a chain of globes was created, each at 
white heat, and revolving at a rapid rate. Had 
man been permitted to witness the sublime though 
horrible sight of these contending forces, the 
glare of the electric currents, the roll and boom 
of this vast chemical retort out of which was to 
be fashioned and made this illimitable universe of 
worlds, he w^ould have been stricken dumb for- 
ever with awe for the Great Unseen. The great 



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temperature of these newly created bodies, which 
naturally retained the same laws of gravitation^ 
etc., as the eternal center, so disturbed the atmos- 
phere, yet unorganized, for such a space of terri- 
tory that torrents of water were formed and fell 
for a great period of time upon these new worlds, 
causing a great cloud to form about them. This 
was the condition of the planets till plant life 
appeared upon them. There was not one universe 
formed about the Great Center, but a system of 
systems of universes, with their suns, and moons, 
and stars, each to a certain extent being a planet. 
Some of them were of such a nature that long 
ages must elapse before they can possibly be in- 
habitable bodies. 

When this system of worlds had arrived at a 
certain stage, other systems were formed — not 
created — in the same manner as the former, and 
this formation of worlds from always-existing 
and never-created particles, of to a certain extent 
impersonal atoms or entities, is the thought-act of 
the great universal Father-Mother, to this day. 
Planets fulfill their mission and pass to other 
conditions of action ; suns do the same, and the 
moons, and the old worn-out earths of long ago ; 
and the newly formed and forming planets are 
performing their functions and pass to other con- 
ditions. Every living thing, dreaming, sleeping, 
awaking, living, or dying, performs its function 
and passes to other conditions. Man, the greatest 
of all the creations of the great Androgyne Prin- 
ciple, has, does, and will perform his mite of labor 
upon these mundane spheres, and then passes to 
other conditions. The highest of all created 



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beings, and possessing the eternal principle of 
life itself, and conscious of the time when as a- 
particle of fire and flame, he pursued his course 
around the Sun from which evolved all that is, he 
either struggles against what he unthinkingly calls 
fate (which is the wrong construction of his living 
soul, the generation of a spirit by ignorant 
mortals), or bravely battles the perils of being, 
and at the end of a long and useful life enters the 
higher realms of action ; passing on the way the 
unfortunates who by thoughtless abuse of the 
proper use of the creative laws, must pass ages 
in a land where their true creation must be con- 
summated. 

This Grand Center is the fountain of all laws 
of affinity, gravitation, repulsion, centrifugal, 
centripetal, refraction, diffraction, polarization, 
genuflection, analyses, combination ; the eternal 
life-principle of all that is ; the Supreme Will, 
Infinite Intelligence, Master Mind, Sovereign 
Force, Conscious Energy, Atomic Law, and all that 
tends to create, form, dissever, and unite, the im- 
ponderable, the infinitesimal, molecular particles, 
which consolidated form the visible system of uni- 
verses. This Great Center is, and is not ; was and 
yet to be ; it never was created, and there never 
was a time when it was not. The most subtle 
properties of chemistry are its parts, and yet chem- 
ists know them not. The deific fluids known as 
electricity, magnetism, spirit, ether, and all the 
various combinations of gases and atmospheric 
atoms, are its body, yet are not it ; they are a part 
of it, yet exert their force far away, millions and 
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organized space, where chaos reigns supreme, 
following the dictates of the universal All, of 
which these vital forces are but lines of a great 
Battery, wherein are generated all that ever was^ 
is, or e'er shall be. The vast, illimitable, grand 
universe, consisting of systems of universes, always 
existed. For nothing can be created, yet all 
things are formed from previously existing parti- 
cles in different visible shapes. In the Great 
Center, that majestic, awful globe of spirit, planet 
of embryotic planets yet to be, existed and will 
forever exist in miniature, the worlds, and suns,, 
and living things that ever will exist. 

This great Eye sees all things, is in everything, 
is the life of all that is, and is the hand that 
gathers the flower and the thistle, the young and 
the old, with no respect to cause, or use, or view 
of change. Every soul is a part of the great Over- 
Soul, and when parted from the earthly segments 
and sediments, passes to the arms of the great 
Androgyne, to wander through lands of ecstatic 
bliss, and cull from the plant of life the never- 
dying flowers of eternity. Al-Brahm is the 
parent of all. TJiey are God, and God is Love. 
VVe can never expect to know infinity, yet Infinite 
Love has told us that nothing is in vain — that 
nothing has never been made into something. 
We only can know that the infinite is, and forms 
all things and re-forms them at his will. The 
thought of Al-Brahm or God is the act of the 
germs of planetary life ; and new organisms are 
the result. Thought is but the magnetic action 
of the great All in its ethereal zone. 



LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



The fool hath said 

There is no God;" 
You see His works, yet 
Still deny, 0 clod. 

The little birds that warble, 

And flit from tree to tree, 
Each have their wants supplied 

By the God that e'er shall be. 

The beasts that roam the earth, 

Of every phase of form. 
Are daily cared for by the hand 

That makes the calm and storm. 

Ask savages if they believe 

That an almighty power 
Supplies their every want, 

And guides them hour by hour. 

This earth is still flxed in space 

Like many hundreds more, 
Guided by the Unseen Hand 

As in the times of yore. 

Winter's cold, and summer's warm, 
The change from day to night. 

Are also wrought by the Unseen Hand, 
The maker of right, and might. 

The earth, the sea, the sky, 

Are governed by the hand 
Of the unseen Being 

Who everywhere doth stand. 

The stars, the moons,the suns. 
All hold their throne in space 

By power of this Master Mind's 
Unchanging, unceasing grace. 

This Universal Architect 

Creates all, kind by kind ; 
Some call Him the all-wise God — 

We call Him the Master Mind. 



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He gives us all we have ; 

Directs us, gives us sight ; 
'Twas the thought-act of His will 

That said "Let there be light." 

You know all this, and see, 

And yet deny, 0 clod. 
And still sav in your heart 

"There is no God.'' 

"There is no God," 

Say skeptics wondrous wise ; 
They see His works on every hand ; 

Do they believe their eyes? 

But when life is done and down 
To the river of death they plod, 

The fools say with the wise 
"There is a God." 

ConjBning myself to the description of the 
earth alone, as conveying adequate ideas of all 
other planets, I will say that this earth is one of 
a series of planets of one system, which with 
other systems, are the sixth circle from the Great 
Central Sun ; therefore there are thousands of 
planets and worlds that have existed and passed 
from existence to be re-formed in other conditions, 
ere this world of ours was inhabitable. Pursuing 
its course around its sun for ages and ages, with 
dense volumes of water falling upon it, there 
necessarily arose such clouds of steam that the 
sun was obscured from sight. The water, acting 
chemically upon the revolving globe, finally 
equalized to a required extent, the properties 
composing the same. For ages the world rolled 
on, a landless ocean. Then the crucible brought 
from the recesses of this changing mass an infinite 
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number of animalculae — water molecules. They 
were not all alike. But in embryo all things are 
alike. A microscopic examination of albumen 
will show this; or the examination of the foetus 
of any kind of animal life, will prove this. At 
length these breeding atoms generated a new 
substance — soil. The chemical changes continued, 
and peaks and stretches of land appeared here 
and there, above the ocean. The living dead 
brought forth plants with animal properties and 
oro^anisms. The sea was full of floatino: life. The 
shore was all a marsh. The scene changes. 
Plants grow upon the land and in the water — 
plants generated from plant-animals, and animals 
created from the same. The sea was filled from 
the first dawn of life with a floatino: o^elatinous 
substance, the albumen of all life. Man's organic 
life originated there. 

Obeying the natural law of life, the earth 
became more perfect in substance, even rocky; 
and insects, and winged fowls, and amphibian 
creatures, thronged the land and the sea. Plants 
and vegetation flourished to an awe-inspiring 
extent. Shell fishes and fishes of everv grade, in 
body small, appeared. Great changes still take 
place upon the planet. Life is well-nigh extinct 
at times. Carbon is generated, and moss and tree, 
and fern are stored away for the use of mankind 
yet to be. Then the powerful atmospheric proper- 
ties cause the generated animal and vegetable king- 
doms to assume mammoth sizes, florrid forms on 
sea and land, and in the air, appear, and mair s pro- 
genitors idly play amid the waves of the pre-his- 
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water molecule, and following out the divine law, 
evoluted from stage to stage, from molecule to 
plant-animal, from plant-animal to trilobite and 
zoophyte, and fish; and hasting onward in the 
age of carbon assumed the form of man, tail of 
fish and arms of fins. For long ages was this the 
case. Then came the age when animals became 
less bestial, and winged things more gentle, and 
vegetation less luxuriant, and more adapted to the 
use of living beings. The men of the sea began 
to visit the land and become familiar with life 
aside from aquatic forms. Evolution never re- 
cedes but always advances, and ages passed; and 
still following the infinite adjunct, the tails of 
man took the forms of legs, and the fins became 
arms. Long ages did they so remain, and then 
gradually fingers and toes took the place of webs. 

Man was ever a distinct creation, but in his 
early days he was sensual, and unknown to proper 
laws of generation and propagation of species. 
Many of the men of early days took up their 
abode with the beasts of the forests and plains, 
and the result was that horrible monstrosities 
were born into the world, and m ages to come, 
new races of created beings. All the races of 
monkeys, apes, gorillas, orang outangs, etc., so 
originated. Beasts of the forest of strange aspect, 
owe their existence to early man. Strange fowls 
of the air owe some of their peculiarities to the 
same cause. Man never originated from the 
monkey family, but the monkey family originated 
from man. In his infancy, in the early age of 
man, he was of the animal kingdom — is to this 
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therefore, following ia the animal plane, was 
covered with hair, and owing to the tropical 
climate, suffered only from the heat of the sun. 
He was rude and rugged and of gigantic propor- 
tions. He knew not the spirit from the flesh man 
unless by contact. He fed on berries, and roots, 
and herbs, and knew not the use of fire or the 
way to produce it. He saw the effects of the 
lightning's stroke, but knew not the cause thereof, 
and never wondered thereat. He was stolidly 
indifferent to everything about him, caring onlv 
for sustenance. By and by he became sensual to 
the extent that he ate the flesh of beasts, and 
finally degenerated into cannibalism. There were 
exceptions to this, for all did not become canni- 
bals. The world was a gloom}^ charnel-house, 
for no mjs of interior light penetrated the in- 
stinct of its inhabitants, and angel visits were 
well-nigh fruitless. Other worlds assisted to lead 
man to his present position, I repeat, though in 
the time I speak of, they were not discouraged, 
or cast down, for all the light was still ahead. 

This earth was once a ball of fire 

Bright shining as the Sun 
From which 'twas taken in ages past, 

And a planet's life is begun. 

The Creative Law of the universe 

That never had a birth, 
That always was, will always be, 

Made this planet we call earth. 

This ball of fire at length grew old, 

And wandering on through space, 
Became imbued with internal life, 

And entered creation's race. 



LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



For ages untold it wandered on, 

Creative Power felt within ; 
Electric currents flashed forth wild. 

With eruption's horrible din. 

The lightnings darted, the thunders rolled, 

Confusion reigned supreme; 
New panicles generated from this mass 

Of fluids, vapors, steam. 

The work of creation still w^ent on 
'Mid crash, and roar, and glare; 

A world in embryo was forming — 
A planet hung in the air. 

Soon vapors rose, and steam condensed 
Poured down in floods of rain ; 

The ball of fire 'came a liquid mass, 
And its horrors 'gan to wane. 

Gales and hurricanes of wind — 
Created by this changing mass — 

Hurled hither and thither this wild 
Admixture of vapors, liquids, gas. 

The white heat changed to red. 

Then lost its fiery face; 
The boiling water seethed and hissed 

To find a resting place. 

Time rolled on and still the mass 

Evolved a gentler sphere, 
Till all was calm and held its place, 

And earth's first age was here. 

The sea was filled with floating life, 

The jelly albumen rare : 
The first of all created life; 

Man's life was started there. 

But a terrible change came o'er the scene: 
The elements warred with might; 

The earth changed into floating chaos 
In a dread Silurian night. 



LIFE IX THE STONE AGE. 



Void again gave way to form 
Through the quake of earth and air; 

Mountains rose and valleys fell, 
And deep chasms here and there. 

Again the earth shows signs of life, 
And the sun looks through the clouds; 

The ocean 's full of floating forms ; 
The sky is filled ; on earth in crowds. 

There are strauge plants with root-like feet, 
And the stone-lily strange to view; 

There are trilobites, star-fish, mollusks, 
And the wondrous coral, too. 

Strange fishes swim in the sea 

With helmets on their heads; 
And the coral builds its reef — 

But not on the ocean beds. 

Another change does now take place: 
Foul gases rise from out the earth ; 

Internal and external heat breaks forth, 
And nothing has a birth. 

Time passes swiftly on; and then, 
When the crucible's power is spent, 

Life endows reptiles, and 
Beasts on land are sent. 

Before these beings came on earth, 

The moss, and fern and tree 
Were changed by carbon gas to coal — 

Of benefit great degree. 

The sun had struggled through murky clouds 

To look upon the earth, 
That through the laws of nature 

Must have another birth. 

Rude convulsions had shaken the earth ; 

Electric storms howled aloud ; 
Plains were raised to mountain height. 

And mountains low were bowed. 



LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



Strange animals and plants 

Are found in field and marsh ; 
While overhead, large winged insects fly, 

With voices loud and harsh. 

Strange foliage grew upon the land, 
And strange beings swam in the sea; 

While in the sky there flew about 
Rude birds of great degree. 

Now flowers, and plants, and verdant trees, 

Spring up on every hand, 
The sweet perfume is wafted 

Far o'er the beauteous land. 

Huge reptiles crawl on sandy shores, 

And swim in marshy lakes; 
Great monsters beat the balmy air, 

Their loud cries the silence breaks. 

Ungainly beings of vampire form 

With dreadful, flaming eyes, 
Feast on other unwieldy shapes 

That voice unearthly cries. 

Lizards thirty feet long or more, 

Lift high their snaky heads. 
Their huge jaws filled with jagged teeth, 

Crawl from their slimy beds. 

Birds appear upon earth's plain 

And dumbly stride along, 
Leaving huge tracks at the water's edge — 

But they lack the gift of song. 

Pterodactyls, ichthyosauri, plesiosauri, 

Huge beasts of horrid form ; 
Bird yet beast, and beast yet fish. 

Drag their rude selves along. 

Discordant noises broke the silence; 

The beings of land, and sea, and sky, 
Grew numerous, and then came 

Murky fumes floating by. 



LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



Strange noises rise from out the earth ; 

Euinblings that are harsh and deep; 
Convulsions rend the rocks asunder, 

And flames from chasms leap. 

The earth is again in ruins laid, 

But rises to life again ; 
On it are found hugh monsters, 

Such as equus and mastodon. 

Huge hairy elephants stalk about. 

And elks of stately mien, 
With cave-bears, and a new creation — 

Primeval man — was then first seen. 

Then a chill strikes through the earth, 
And frosts creep o'er the land ; 

Mountains of snow fall swiftly down, 
And another life is at hand. 

Tumult reigns upon the scene ; 

Hugh cakes of ice glide over all, 
Crushing and rending hill and dale, 

And sheets of snow does fall. 

The glacier period then passes by. 
And the earth resumes its sway 

In the circle from which it drew 
To kiss the Ice King gay. 

When icy torrents course down its sides, 

And find their way to the sea, 
Sweet flowers bloom, and gay birds-warble, 

And flit from tree to tree. 

In lakelets clear and rippling brooks 
Fishes swim and water-fowls play; 

While in the tree- tops high in air, 
Monkeys swing all day. 

Again large quadrupeds are seen. 

But not as large as heretofore; 
Strength and size give way to use, 

Mind reigns for evermore. 



LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



The Age of Man has come, 

And on a written scroll 
We find the history of the earth, 

The reign of mind, of soul. 

But the mind of man is clouded 

For ages long to come ; 
Slowly climbing life's frail ladder, 

Mankind yet is dumb. 

Through the ages he has progressed, 
Then held back by passion's hand ; 

Again advances, slowly, slowly, 
Man must always know command. 

Command the good, repulse the evil ; 

Always, always reaching up 
For the light from lands of sether. 

Lest he drain the bitter cup. 

In the days that now are coming, 

In the good time yet to be. 
He'll be guided by the star of God-love, 

And forever then be free. 

Hail the day, 0 man, 0 sister, 
Infallible, only Brahm can be, 

Errors all will flee to darkness, 
Eight is might, and all shall see. 

All shall see that light is dawning. 
Shining from the Land of Love, 

Stronger, stronger, the light is streaming, 
Biddino: all to look above. 

From a germ of spirit, matter, 

Man has progressed with the earth 

Whose history he may catch a glimpse of 
Ere he passes to his spirit birth. 

Then to journey by slow stages 
Toward the Eternal Center Sun, 

Guided by the infinite life-line. 
And his life will ne'er be done. 



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Why things are I know not; why this one 
grand universe of universes, many in one, should 
be; or why God is; and why this Androgynous 
Principle should not be inert ; and why It causes 
to come into existence all that is, I know not. 
Only It is infallible. Man may err in his attempts, 
his feeble efforts to solve the mysteries of the 
seen and the unseen, but to comprehend infinity 
is unthinkable. The mind of man is too frail to 
accomplish such a task. He can only reach the 
point to know that at every throb of this great 
Universal Brain, conditions, and effects, and causes 
are constantly changing. So, man can never 
know the true history of the earth, its many 
changes, but he can receive impressions as to the 
general course of evolution. Great changes re- 
quire great time to effect them, and often are 
ushered in by sudden shocks, if of a planetary 
nature. 

However, from being herbivorous in nature, 
man became also carnivorous, and as the planet 
became older and older, the climate would also 
change ; so that from being exceedingly torrid, 
the earth at length became more temperate, and 
when the planet next furthest from the earth 
passed from existence by a cataclysm, a universal 
quake of earth and air acting immediately upon 
said planet, the earth also became somewhat 
affected, and its polarity was changed, so that 
what is now the north pole (so called) was formerly 
the equator. Man then became conversant with 
life in dwellings of bark, caves or caverns, and 
those ^vhose ancestral trait of living in the water 
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habitations in lakes and streams. Cave-dwelling 
was the first mode of living aside from the open 
air or jangles. Then the people conceived the 
idea of constructing bark-houses. Then they be- 
came somewhat familiar with the masonic pro- 
fession, and began building mud houses ; and 
those in the lakes, who were very shy and timid, 
copying the example, constructed submarine 
dwellings, and others made floating rafts on which 
they built rude dwellings. As time rolled on, and 
implements of stone became useful, they had less 
work in forming clumsy shells in ,which to live. 
And when metals began to come into use, these 
water-dwellers managed to drive spiles into the 
bed of the lake or stream, and constructing a 
platform thereon, built their pre historic palaces. 

The time when the fourth planet from the sun 
passed suddenly from existence, and became a 
part of the unorganized atmospheric properties 
always forming, the effect was so great that this 
earth was in danger of becoming annihilated. 
But, passing in its orbit around the sun, it had 
just passed the point of direct affinity or gravity 
toward this expiring world (for all worlds have a 
unit of connection, a central point of attraction), 
so that all that befell this earth was its change of 
axis, and which change also placed it on the very 
verge of its orbit, which had it crossed, would 
have been whirled through space and rended 
to atoms, and which would be distributed tlirough 
the air. Suns, stars, moons, planets, owe their 
existing conditions to their orbit-play about their 
center, and often they are consumed, and often 
frozen, and often pass from existence. Such is 



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planetary law. The usual position of the earth 
being changed, the waters all fled toward the 
north (as it is now) and being on the outer edge 
of the orbit, the sudden change caused the for- 
mation of ice and snow which deluged the greater 
part of the earth for a long time. Finally, when 
the earth had reached the point where it had been 
thrown from its natural position, it resumed its 
original place, except the polar attitude which 
remains yet, and will so remain until some greater 
calamity will befall the earth. How^ or when it 
will occur, I know not, but I have been given to 
know that at some period this earth will pass 
from existence as it now is, and will be re formed 
in another and now unknown state. But this 
catastrophe is not in the near future, and no need- 
less alarm need be caused on account of such 
impending danger. Immediately upon assuminor 
its more natural position toward the sun, the earth 
was deluged, and havoc in general performed by 
the ice and snow, which melting, poured in tor- 
rents and avalanches over the land. Some kinds 
of animal life were totallv extino:uished, but man 
lived through all the glacier period from first to 
last, occupying the uttermost parts of the earth, 
where comparative comfort was maintained. It 
is unnecessary for me to speak at length on the 
glacier epoch, only to say that man was then 
learned to w^ear clothmg of skins of animals, and 
further and further burrowed into the earth for 
warmth, and Avas more voracious than ever in his 
appetite for flesh. 

After the glacier period had passed by, and 
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ice and water to such an alarming extent, the 
various created kingdoms entered upon a higher 
and better stage of action. A sort of purifying 
process had taken place. Man, as a general rule, 
entered into better conditions, and progressed 
steadily until the time I appeared upon the scene. 
After my departure from earth about 300 years, 
all m3^ family had joined me, m}^ wife and thirteen 
children. I have often returned to earth since 
my departure, and have never regretted doing so. 
Step by step the Incapo race grew in intellectual 
and physical prowess, and 50,000 years after my 
transition had arrived at an exalted condition. 
To be sure there were other races of people, the 
white race being a result of the long amalgama- 
tion of the Incapos and Mallies on Al-Arj^a ; and 
other races corresponded to them to a certam 
extent, on other parts of the globe. But I shall 
as yet concern myself with affairs on Al-Arya. 

What is called Spiritualism, be it ancient or 
modern, was the prevailing religion of the world 
at one time, but degenerated into the worship of 
sundry spirits as the Ml-Powerful. Every tribe 
had its god who was thought to be immaculate 
and infallible, the supposed ruler of all. But the 
Incapos never fell to such worship. It grew to be 
very commonplace for mortals to talk with and see 
spirits whenever so desired, and thus learned many 
valuable secrets. Gradually, from living in the 
ground, man began living again in the air, and to 
build dwellings upon mounds of earth, in order to 
more fully be in accord with the god of nature, they 
thought. Many had rooms within these mounds, 
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saw fit. The rite of cremating the dead, instead of 
burying them, was very popular and considered a 
very healthy and tasteful expedient, in preference 
to the horrifying mode of burial in the earth. 
The arts became somewhat well known to my 
people, and man\^ grand works did they perform. 
But I must here say that the person of man was 
no longer covered with hair, as in my day. Kar- 
mah Ka, one of my successors in the oflSce of 
chief priest, was the first who was not in that con- 
dition in the capacity of priest. Man was also 
decreasing in size and physical strength as he be- 
came more intellectual. This is one of nature's 
laws, that the intellectual is at the expense of the 
physical, and often vice versa. 

The Incapos discovered gold and other precious 
and valuable metals, etc., and built temples of 
tbem of quaint and curious designs, and orna- 
mented these temples with all imaginable styles 
of sculpture. They formed better governments, 
and had free exchange of what was most needful 
to each other. If one had an article of any kind 
that he desired to exchange for something another 
person had, they agreed how much of one should 
be given for the other. Marriage was the agree- 
ment of a man and a woman, before a priest, that 
they were willing to go together through life, co- 
operatively, for the betterment of themselves and 
their country. Criminals were admonished to 
correct their errors against society, and after the 
third repetition of the admonishment, the crimi- 
nal was either drafted into a life-time servitude 
of the state as a common workman, with no voice 
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was very great, he was at once put to death by 
inhaling the fumes of a poisonous plant — now ex- 
tinct. Never was an Incapo put to death by 
hanging, quartering, burning at stake, or by any 
of the modern ''civiUzed" modes of putting offen- 
sive people out of the world. 

Sickness and disease were almost unknown, for 
the reason that the priests had been inducted into 
the science of magnetism, and were proficient 
healers. The best healers, mesmeric or magnetic, 
of this day are not at all as good as were the In- 
capos 100,000 years ago. Mesmerism, fascination, 
etc., are now fairly well understood, but their 
practitioners are too weak, or too sensitive to the 
thought of failure, or in dread of exploring further 
into one of the life-principles of the universe. The 
mind of man was then better understood than it 
is to-day, and mental telegraphy and its attendant 
attributes were readily comprehended, and the 
conditions necessary to cause such states were 
also well known by the priests and a few of the 
more intellectual people. Mediumship of every 
phase was highly developed. To be able to leave 
his body at will and transport himself to other 
scenes of earth or space, was the chief aim of the 
priesthood, and they became very proficient at 
such work. These old Incapos became so spiritu- 
ally enlightened and unfolded that they could 
leave their bodies and be seen by their compan- 
ions, both spirit and body being visible. 

The power of the will was also a deep study 
for the people, under the care of the priests. The}^ 
were somewhat acquainted with electricity and 
knew some of its manifold phases of conducting 



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communications from bod}^ to body, and found 
that between the electricity of the universe and 
the electricity of the will there was a powerful 
aflBnity. Finally, the king of the Incapo nation 
(which was Bal-Dek and Tipke-Doron united) after 
mature consultation with the chief priest and his 
band, at length resolved to apply this newly found 
force upon the construction of .buildings, temples, 
monuments, etc., for the state. Experimenting 
upon small objects, by exerting the will, centering 
their minds upon the removal of the object, the 
priests were slightly surprised to see the object 
move in the direction required. Experimenting 
then began upon larger objects, and still larger, 
till they found that no movable object was too 
large or too ponderous to resist their mental be- 
hests. Then they experimented upon the possi- 
bility of willing persons to move or do as they 
required, and found that they were again success- 
ful. The construction of huge piles and temples, 
and monuments was now comparatively easy. 
The huge blocks of stone, and marble, and iron, 
and copper, and blended metals, were read il}^ con- 
signed to their proper positions, and the materials 
thus used were without great diflBculty brought 
from long distances in the same way. 

As magnets, large and small, are in general 
use in modern days, so were they in the days of 
Incapo splendor; only on a grander and more 
powerful scale. The mind of man was the most 
powerful magnet knowm. He could, by the ex- 
ertion of his wull, draw to him whatsoever he 
willed, if for a good purpose, and by placing the 
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human magnets, the moving of said body was 
greatly expedited. It was found that the closer 
man lived to nature, and wrought the most good, 
was more humane, and trended more to the 
spiritual, and left the sensual on the shores of 
oblivion, the greater was the will power of man. 
Everything that was at all possible was consum- 
mated. And the Incapo land was a model of fine 
people, fine arts, fine dwellings, temples, monu- 
ments, and the superiors of any other part of the 
globe that I have any acquaintance with. The 
priests were well versed in mathematics of every 
grade, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, and 
all the sciences that man could possibly know. 
And as great a science as any, was that of 
character-reading, and connected therewith, the 
reading or interpreting the thoughts of others, 
be the distance between them great or small. The 
faculty of seeing with closed eyes was also highly 
cultivated, so that the priests, especially, could as 
readily pass about the land with closed eyes, or 
even if blind, as well as those with the organs of 
vision open and unimpaired. The knowledge of 
mathematics and astronomy was of great value 
to the Incapos, for they erected pyramids, and 
monuments, and tombs, and temples, of wonder- 
ful ingenuity ; and with their knowledge of our 
hieroglyphic language, caused these structures and 
works of art to be a history of the land and the 
people, as well as pleasing things to the eye, and 
useful to man. The hieroglyphic language was a 
combination of the signs, and marks, and figures, 
used in their mathematical profession. That is 
the double use made of our written language; 
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would that it were so, now, throughout the world. 
But hierogl3^phic writing was in vogue before the 
advent of mathematics. The one use of it, only, 
was known. The priests discovered the double 
signification of the characters, and were wise 
enouo^h to make use of their discoverv. 

Vessels for sailing upon the water were com- 
ing into use, after years of experimenting on the 
same, and the Incapo seamen became expert 
mariners, visiting the adjoining countries, and 
also went as far north as was possible, the severe 
cold keeping them from sailing farther. They 
also sailed south and were familiar with the 
islands and people of the Antarctic Ocean, being 
debarred bj^ the excessive cold from going farther 
south. The Incapos began migratino: to the 
countries east and west of Al-Arya, and became 
merged into the races in those countries. But 
the great body of Al- Aryans remained at home. 
They were contented to remain where they 
were. There were volcanoes, many of them, on 
the island of Al-Arya, and earthquakes were 
coupled with their eruptions, though but occasion- 
ally was much damage done by them I have 
said that before m\^ advent onto Al-Arya, a pai't 
of it had sunk. Each succeeding eruption, though 
few and far between, became more and more 
violent, till about 70,000 years ago, the ocean 
undermined Al-Arya, owing to the violence of the 
earthquakes, and the island sank forever beneath 
the waves of the Atlantic. The neighboring 
countries were severely shaken up and nature 
seemed somewhat demoralized. When the Incapos 
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they were suddenly swept from existence, and 
their grand monumental history made the play- 
grounds of ocean saurians, amphibia, and germ for 
plants. There may have been a reason why God 
should have permitted this to occur. But all I 
can know is that God, though Director of nature's 
laws, cannot stem the tide when laws are broken, 
and cause the return of former power in the 
object injured. Again, the influx into the spirit 
world of so many wise spirits, would be conducive 
to the betterment of future man, and also be of 
use in becoming messengers to other worlds, to 
brighten the intellects of the inhabitants of these 
worlds. I am inclined to believe that positive and 
negative working together, \yill reach a climnx, 
both spiritually and planetary, and when the 
planetary climax is reached, some change of con- 
dition is accomplished, be it the formation or ex- 
tinction of a world. And spiritually, it may be 
the dissevering of the soul and spirit from the 
flesh body, or the climax of some other cause, 
which effect is the bringing into spirit life the 
spirit, that it may be more fully educated. 

The Incapos who became residents of America, 
mostly lived in what is Mexico of the present, 
though many of their descendants passed down 
into South America. TJie islands called the West 
Indias are the remainder of a part of America, 
the part now^ under water being sunk when Al- 
Arya passed from existence. It might be sup- 
posed that the sudden sinking of such a large 
tract of land would affect the earth's gravity, but 
its orbitular gravity is too firmly established to 
admit of such a change, except by outside in- 



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fluence, as in the case of the planet that bursted 
and caused the glacial period on the earth. The 
art of printing and book-inaking was unknown to 
the native Al-Ar3^ans, as were also other modern 
inventions, such as the telephone, telegraph, tele- 
scope, phonograph, cannons, and enginery of war, 
and the use of engines and railroads, and such 
other marks of man's impressed ingenuity. But 
the Ircapos knew the power of electricity, mag- 
netism, etc., and supplied their wants by such 
powerful agents as these. Their priests instructed 
them in the reading of hieroglyphics, and when 
admiring the sculptors or engraver's art, man 
also read the history of his country. 

Mexico, and Central and South America still 
show remains of the talent of the Incapos. and 
even the Incapo blood has not died out in these 
countries. Amalgamating among the people of 
America who w^ere savages compared with the 
Incapos, the race finally degenerated, and the 
secrets of the old ancients are now unknown to 
the present inhabitants, descendants of the ab- 
origines. From a large island in the Pacific 
Ocean, people came to America, and they too 
w^ere better educated than the Americans, who 
were no further advanced because they resisted - 
the progress that spirit power urged them to. 
They are not unlike, in that respect, thousands of 
people of modern days w^ho scorn education, 
sneer at progress, and choose to have no world but 
their own home. Mound-builders from Al-Arya 
had long been inhabitants of America, and had 
entrenched themselves in what is now the United 
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diminished by a dreadful plague that swept over 
the land from the poison-haunted, passion-tainted 
west, where dwelled the most sensual race on the 
continent. And descendants of this race are still 
in the land. This race was white in color, and 
was one of the original human races evoluting 
from molecules. This dreadful plague often swept 
over the land, and in the course of time but few 
remained of this race, which amalgamated with 
other races, but ever retains its bane of evil. 
After the cessation of this unknow^n plague that 
well-nigh extinguished the mound- builders, the 
few remaining began mixing with the Americans 
of nearly their own color, now called Indians. 
In the course of time all knowledge of ancestral 
power and prowess was lost, and the mounds yet 
remain to show the glory of the lost race. 

In South America, the Incapos, as I have said, 
amali>:amated with other races, till the ancestral 
dignity was lost. It must not be supposed that 
America after this was the same in form or size. 
Earthquakes often occurred, and the face of the 
country changed and rechanged. Parts have been 
sunk and been lakes for centuries, and then again 
elevated to the surface, and some other portion 
sunk. The peopiti of America might have been 
bettered by the ancients who inhabited the coun- 
try long before Europeans took the continent by 
conquest, but man will only progress as his own 
inclination urges, and the ages to come will only 
effect his redemption from carnality. As to the 
history of America, it is only necessary to state 
that previous to the Incapos' migration to that 
country, the people were in the same condition, as 



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a rule, as were the Al-Aryans previous to my ad- 
vent upon the earth. 

The Incapos who went eastward from Al-Arya, 
for a time lived in what is now western Africa, 
but disliking the squalor of the people and country, 
finally made their w^ay to the land of the Egyp- 
tians, where they remained till their race became 
a part of the Egj^ptians. They were fortunate in 
finding in Thithoth, the name they gave the 
i country, a race of people who were exceedingly 
well educated, muchly as themselves. They found 
that these were from the far east, from what is 
now India. The}^ learned that these Indians or 
Hindoos were of the same spirituality as they 
were, and that their progression was much the 
same as theirs. The joint labor of the Hindoos 
and Incapos now are pointed to as the Egyptian 
pyramids, monuments, and ruins of ancient palaces 
and cities. The will-power of the Incapos, which 
I have spoken of, was also known to the Indians 
of Egypt and their native land as well, and was 
the means by which all the mammoth piles of 
Asia, Africa^ Europe and America were put in 
place and finished. Long years elapsed till the 
Incapos and Indians were blended with the yellow 
races of Asia, and the black races of Africa, and 
then the grandeur of Thithoth was gone. The 
people gradually lost all knowledge of the arts and 
sciences of their ancestors, and the wanders of 
Egypt still stand as mocking monuments of man's 
ingenuity and man's present sensuality. Angels 
weep that the flesh of man is considered of more 
value than his priceless soul. 

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type of man, and except in partially civilized 
countries (for no country on the globe is entirely 
civilized) they are but little better than they were 
300,000 years ago. The old secrets of the Egyp- 
tians are well-nigh lost, and charlatanry has taken 
the place of genuine knowledge of what was and 
is possible to be performed in reading character, 
prophesying and other occult phases of science. 
Africa is pointed to as an example of man's de- 
generacy, and the light of the star of hope is 
glimmering over the land where bloodshed and 
sensuality has been its history since its birth. The 
truth may yet make these people free. Long ages 
ago, when the Indians had possession of the ''land 
of darkness" and had not degenerated into amal- 
gamation with the blacks, they were a prosperous, 
and intelligent, and happy people. The wilder- 
ness now hides the ruins of ancient grandeur, and 
obscurity holds the history of their rise and fall, 
which was not sudden but gradual. Men's re- 
search may yet find the unimpeachable evidences 
of what I here speak. The black man has demol- 
ished the temples,^ and shrines, and monuments of 
Indian prowess and skill. 1 can only tell to man 
that in the dim ages gone, old Thithoth of the 
Hindoos and Incapos was magnificent in sculpture 
and engravery, and rich in precious metals, and 
prtcious stones, and could make them at their will, 
for the secret of transmuting baser metals into 
gold and silver and precious stones was known to 
the priests, who were excellent in alchemy and 
botany and kindred sciences. The history of 
Africa has been one of gloom. Man's downfall 
lias been gradual, though a lost step may be re- 



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gained, and again lost. But there is still some 
light ahead. 

As to Asia and its history it is naturally much 
the same as the other countries, except the south- 
ern and eastern parts, where the people were 
somewhat the nature of the Incapos. Those in 
the eastern part progressed gradually, intellectu- 
ally, though they were much too sensual to ad- 
vance to as high a plane as they might have done. 
Many people from an island in the Pacific ocean 
visited eastern Asia, and took up their abode there, 
and when their island was sunk about 40,000 years 
ago, by one of the usual periodical earthquakes, 
China and America held all the brown people 
from that island. I will here say that the oceans 
of this globe were at the north and the south, and 
the land was in the center in the form of a circle; 
and the sinking of Al-Arya and the Pacific Is- 
land left the eastern and western continents and 
the island of Australia, with a few scattering is- 
lands, to constitute the land of to-day. The history 
of China and eastern Asia since the moderns have 
become acquainted with the land has been much 
the same as when the island in the Pacific sank. 
There were teachers of -morality, and science, and 
arts, and the people indolently learned what they 
chose, and no more. Sensuality and the greed of 
gain is and has been the sin of that land, and will 
likely be such for ages to come. 

Southern Asia was phenomenal in its intellec- 
tual growth, and was the pride, and amazement, 
and fear of surrounding countries. The Hindoos 
finally began migrating to other lands, and scat- 
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Africa when the Incapos arrived there. They 
taught the people many useful things, and were, 
in part, the progenitors of the Greeks and Romans ; 
though as to being the progenitors of the Jews in 
any way, they were not. Persia and Chaldea, 
and Assyria, and many other nations of old were 
settled by these wandering Hindoos, and their 
religion was inculcated into the minds of the 
people, and to this day, the ancient Hindoo religion 
is the basis of all the religions of the religious 
world. There were always some among the 
priests who retained the ancient secrets of mag- 
netism and electricity, and it is but of compai a- 
tively recent time that these secrets have been 
lost, except to a few recluses. 

Following on down the stream of time, I see 
the struggling humans scattering over the world, 
driving hither and thither the barbarians who are 
inferior to them, for at his best, man is yet a 
trifle barbarous. The people are gradually be- 
coming more intelligent, and the stone age is suc- 
ceeded by the age of bronze, which amalgamates 
with the age of iron, and the age of gold is fol- 
lowed by the age of reason. Kingdoms, and 
empires, and principalities rise here and there, 
and every tribe is a nation. For ages, almost, 
the amalgamated white and brown races are 
forming a new race — the Jews. There were in 
their immediate country Chaldeans, Persians, 
Greeks, Pomans, Egyptians, and numerous other 
nationalities, that have passed to posterity and 
the modern world the partially fabulous accounts 
which are woven into man's history. The Jews 
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yet a distinct race. The angel world was still 
striving to help man to find the light within, and 
give him courage to reach the light ahead. The 
vast horde of savage men had Snally swallowed 
up tlie intellectual few (who had, by superior 
advantages and a desire to learn, become the 
beacon light of the human race), and the world 
for ages was not much better for their having 
lived in it. The hope of lifting man out of the 
gulf of despair had only resulted in the extinction 
of the missionaries of old. But if their work on 
earth was fruitless, their spiritual work was not, 
and they have since been working faithfully lo 
naturahze man, and their centuries and ages of 
work has not been in vain. 

Why did man attain a dizzy height in intel- 
lectual prowess and physical beauty, and become 
so proficient in arts, sciences, professions ? Why 
did man fall from his high estate ? Why did not 
all mankind progress alike ? The answers to these 
questions are : In the early days of man, he was 
herbivorous, and his passions were not aroused to 
the extent of sensuality, till he became carnivor- 
ous. Thus from stage to stage he became more 
and more sensual till all the race was tainted. 
There were those who found that for their own 
betterment it was best not to be sensual. Ad- 
hering to this law, ever keeping it in practice, the 
intellect of man became stronger and stronger, 
and more able to comprehend the matters of life 
and action ; and the Incapos were, except a part 
of the Hindoos, the most highly intellectual 
people on the globe, from the reason that they 
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sical, exercising enough to keep their bodies in 
health. To be sure they did not practice conti- 
nence, yet they were not sensual. But there were 
comparatively few of these people, and by inter- 
marrying with other races who paid no attention 
to these laws of nature, the intellect of man was 
again clouded. 

Since the history of the w^orld has been known 
to modern man, there has been much done in the 
way of enliL^htening the human race. Thank the 
angels for this. By perseverance they have been 
leading the great body of mankind toward the 
mountain top. They iiave tried to inculcate the 
religion of nature into their minds, and man has 
fancifully created more kinds of religious cere- 
monies trending toward the same source, than 
there are days in a year. From the old tribal 
traditionary gods, there have arisen the Zeus of 
the Greeks, the Jove of the Romans, Jehovah of 
the Jews, Brahma of the Hindoos, and many 
other gods of other nations — all tribal gods, and 
no more powerful compared to the great All than 
a sunbeam is to the sun. The Jewish god, 
Jehovah, has caused more trouble than all the 
other tribal gods since the earth was beset with 
such beings. Some of these tribal gods were 
necessary for the betterment of the people, and 
some were only an injury, and w^hen this w^as the 
case, other spirits sought to overthrow the factious 
spirit. Since the god of the Jews, which is wor- 
shiped in a kind of a dazed way by a sect of 
religious people in this day of the world, is more 
of an example than others I might name, I will 
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some thousand years ago, and seeing that the 
Jews needed some restraint or they would de- 
bauch their race out of existence, he besought 
them to be less bestial, and organizing a priest- 
hood, by dint of much labor succeeded in saving 
the Jews from extinction ; but he of himself could 
do very little. All the Jewish spirits were en- 
listed into his army, and the result is known to 
man in the book called the Old Testament. Jeho- 
vah was a most bloody god. He was the god of 
battles, truly. But when the Jews passed under 
the Roman discipline his work was done. He 
could do no more. He has, with his army of 
Jewish spirits, given to the world the Old Testa- 
ment, and it is a partially truthful history of the 
Jews. Much (especially the history of the origin 
of man, in Genesis) is untrue, and only given in 
allegorical form in order to confuse the reader 
unlearned in such lore. 

As it is to day, the Old Testament is not what 
it Avas when w^ritten several thousand years ago 
by Jewish priests, who from various manuscripts 
and the faculty of inspiration, produced said book. 
As for the New Testament, very little of that 
book ever occurred, most of it having been manu- 
factured for ecclesiastical purposes, several hun- 
dred years after the death of Jehoshua, called 
Jesus in that book. Jesus lived about the time 
so alleged by Christian historians, but far from 
being a universal savior to redeem all men from 
their sins, he was simply a powerful healing 
medium, with various other phases of medium- 
ship, such as the world knows of to-day. His 
pure life caused him to be a wonder to the peo- 



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pie of his day, and lest the poor classes revolt and 
make him their king, the Roman government put 
him to death by crucifixion, though the Bible 
account of the marvels said to have occurred at 
the time, never took place. He never taught that 
he was God, but that all men were the sons of 
God, that all that was required of man to fit him- 
self for eternal glory and happiness was to live 
the golden rule : " Do unto others as ye would 
that they should do unto you." I have often seen 
Jesus and know that he is one of the spirit 
teachers in the land of bliss, and that he is pained 
to know that his name has been put to such un- 
holy uses, and does not sanction much that is done 
in his name. He was not miraculously conceived 
and born, but was the son of married parents. 
His early life was spent in traveling, and was a 
resident of Egypt till he began his work as a 
teacher. He was acquainted with the secrets of 
magnetism, and spent his short life in doing good. 

Ecclesiastical savagery is the bane of the 
world to-day. The good life of the meek and 
lowly Nazarene has been the foundation of a 
system of consummate hypocrisy. The w^orld 
has but for a few years been struggling from out 
the gloom of hundreds of years, made by tyrants 
who sought to shackle the mind of man. Refor- 
mation after i^eformation has taken place, and the 
end is not yet. Under the guidance of angels, 
modern Spiritualism has appeared, and the end of 
creeds is slowly approaching. The chief aim of 
man — the true aim — is to live and learn, and 
through the ages angels have have never de- 
spaired. But their work is not yet done. Anarchy 



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stares the world in the face, and man must down 
the foes of reason ere he can hope to attain higher 
fields of progress. 

Bigotry, creed, sensuality, and their legion of 
cohorts, are ruling the modern world, and every 
year brings it nearer the inevitable destiny of 
rule by the people, or rule by the moneyed few. 
From worshiping the Supreme Ruler of the uni- 
verse, through symbol worship in the far ages 
agone that 1 have spoken of, man has gradually 
fallen away to worship and give sacrifice to 
imaginary gods through sun, and fire, and ser- 
pent, and the temples of the Most High are de- 
bauched by lecherous scoundrels who know not 
the meaning of God, or life, and whose })rinciples 
of manhood are smothered beneath the waves of 
passion that rule their very souls. 

''Did man fall? " I will answer this question 
in the light of the truth that has been revealed to 
me. Man was created — or fashioned — as we 
have seen, with the faculty of generation in a 
partially dormant condition ; as the years and 
ages sped on, this faculty became quickened, so 
that now after the space of upwards of 500,000 
years, man is ruled by his carnal passions, and not 
by the love of right, and truth, and progress. 
Scientific investigations show that the more 
spiritual a man becomes, the more advanced in 
intelligence he is, and man only progresses when 
he holds in subjection his evil passions. This 
reign of passion over man is his only devil. The 
man who does right because it is right, and not 
because he is afraid to do wrong, knows no eviU 
for the word devil is only an abridgment of the 



LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



words ''do evil." And the nearest man can 
approach to God is to his fullest attribute^ 
" good;' 

Would that man might learn to know him- 
self, and that he is an immortal soul in an im- 
mortal spirit body, and that if he disobeys the 
supreme laws of Nature's God, he is destroying iiis. 
spirit tabernacle in the heavens, and robbing him- 
self of the boon of God's magnetism, life, sweet 
life. In the study of philosophy, the study of 
creative and sexual science should be the first. 
O man, O woman, fail not to learn to know your- 
self, learn to know that you are responsible for all 
the evil in the world. Learn to know that the 
world is full of half-created forms, people who 
are brought into the world by parents who know 
not that they are trifling with the sacred secrets- 
of God. But I will say no more. I have seen 
the gradual decline of man, and I see in the far 
future the reign of sensuality unless the tide is 
stemmed. 

I see in the future an era of bloodshed and 
revolutions, for man is not the slave of man, but 
his equal. Man seeks to center the w^ealth of the 
land in the hands of a few, and the vast populace 
will be ignoble slaves to the aristocracy. Anarchy 
is rampant, and the abrogation of all laws for the 
Drotection of the manv from the few, the o:ood 
from the bad, the peaceable from the vicious, is 
sought. Law is only made to regulate society, 
and without such rules the early days of man 
would be repeated in these modern days. The 
people must and shall rule ; it is the eternal edict 
of the Most High, Man must learn to know and 



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realize that laws must not be abolished because 
they may be defective. He should seek to better 
them, not put them out of existence. There are 
now those who need no law to keep them in sub- 
jection. They are good citizens of their country, 
and abide by the laws of nature. All laws are 
for those who must be taught to behave them- 
selves. 

The all-important question is, how to retain 
the government in the hands of the people — or 
rather regain it from the plutocrats, demagogues, 
who have usurped, by wih^ methods, the throne 
of the free. Under spirit guidance these much- 
needed reforms are being mooted, and discussed, 
and the prayers of angels are, that man may 
learn to know that woman is his equal in all affairs 
of life, and to bring about the long-looked-for 
millennium of peace, prosperity and happiness, 
without bloodshed and carnage. But if the re- 
demption of the people must come through blood 
and fire, let it so come. The learning of man to 
know himself and his eternal destin}^, and put 
this knowledge into practice and execution, will 
evade the impending conflict. 

I have fulfilled my promise. I have given an 
outline of my life. I have given the history of 
the creation, and the creation of man. I have 
traced man from his creation through prosperity 
and adversit}^ darkness and light, intellectuality 
and sensuality, retrogression and progression, 
down to the present, and dimly glanced into the 
future. I could sa}^ much more, yet it would be 
but a repetition of much that has been said. Profit 
by the ideas I have advanced, and learn to know 



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yourself. What I have said has been humbly 
given with a desire to benefit the world. Think 
but kindly of Atharael, the Al-Aryan. 

O thou Father-Mother of all that was, is, or is 
yet to be. Instill in our minds and hearts and 
very beings, the love of good, and right, and 
justice, and truth, and mercy, and hope. Let the 
light of thy spirit pervade our beings, and shine 
over us in our daily life. Have us learn that thou 
only art great, and that we can do naught but for 
thee. Keep us under the protection of thy angel 
band. In waves of aether send us intelligence of 
what is best for us to do and know. With adora- 
tion we view thy handiwork and anew resolve to 
not defile the temples of our earthly habitation, 
thine and ours. Guide us upward, nearer to the 
truth whose sun shines for all ages and all time. 
Teach us to worship in the spirit, and live in the 
spirit, and see in nature the counterpart of all that 
is. Erring man looks to the seat of all power for 
comfort, and guidance, and seeks to know his 
eternal home. Kind Parent, hear our petition. 
This we ask in the name of the good. 

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'J HE HOME OF THE SOUL. 



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' THE HOME OF THE SOUL." 



The spirit home of all that is, is the vast 
regions of space, the air, the upper air. In the 
body man builds his spirit home. If he is gross, 
and sensual, and greedy, his spirit home will be in 
correspondence with the condition of his spiritu- 
ality before leaving his body — narrow, gloomy 
and forlorn of aspect. If man is cheerful and 
strives to better himself and mankind, his spirit 
home is in correspondence with his spirituality 
before emerging from his flesh body, which is 
merely a shell in which he grows, and develops, 
and evolates from one stage to another, till he is 
adapted for a higher sphere. No two persons 
have spirit homes that are exactly alike, be- 
cause no tw^o persons are exactly alike. When 
man evolutes from his body he is taken to the 
realm best adapted to his condition, and taught to 
become reconciled to his lot, and to accept the 
good in everything. Then there are spirit cities, 
and temples, and colleges, and universities, and 
educational institutions of all kinds, wherein man 
is gradually brought to the higher knowledge im- 
parted by the Great Teacher. The vivid, eloquent, 
thrilling discourses by trance and inspirational 
speakers of earth, are but synopses of lectures de- 
livered in the temples of learning in the Better 
Land. I cannot, I cannot describe in words the 
beauties, the magnificence, the grandeur of the 
spirit world. Language cannot express my 



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thoughts. Can man paint the warble of the 
sweetest singing birds, or gild the glow of the 
setting sun? 

The famous Garden of Eden is verified in the 
Higher Life. The garden is the spirit world. 
The tree of life is the secret dwelling place of Al- 
Brahm. The tree of the knowledge of good and 
evil is the way of life. Adam and Eve are man 
and woman, and the serpent is only passion. The 
four rivers are the four principles of life : justice, 
wisdom, truth and love, and they flow from be- 
neath the tree of life, the great white symbol 
throne of grace The angel with the flaming 
sword is but the fiery pangs of a remorseful con- 
science. Man, woman, learn the real meaning of 
the story of the Garden of Eden, a spirit parable 
given to ancient man. Crucify your lust of the 
flesh and you can partake of the tree of eternal 
life. The fruit of the tree of knowledge will not 
be bitter, and you will not flee when none pursue 
you, for your deeds of darkness will be of the 
past. The true pleasures of life are the flowers, 
and the sweat of your brow is but of honest toil, 
and not the result of imaginary wickedness by 
ancient progenitors with instinct that knew not 
good from evil. Re-incarnation is a delusion. No 
spirit ever lived the second time in a flesh body, 
except when controlling a medium. Re-incarna- 
tion is a horrible doctrine, and as false as it is 
horrible. Man must suffer the consequences of 
all acts done in the body, and ages may roll by 
ere he is forgiven hy his better self for thought- 
less acts of long ago. Repent now of your in- 
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will at once put off its somber hue, and will be 
lighted up by the Great Light above. Then 
when you pass from earthly action, you will wing 
your flight to the celestial realms above, whose 
spacious halls and verdant avenues are lighted by 
the light of Eternal Love, and your ears will be 
enchanted with the strains of music by celestial 
orchestras and gay-plumed, gladsome birds 
of love-life, and your spirit fed with the 
ethereal food gathered from the fields of flowers, 
and plants, and trees of Paradise, and grow in 
grace forever and forever. 



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WHAT SPIRIT IS. 



Spirit is matter in a very refined state. Spirit 
is a substance — not a condition of substance, there- 
fore it is something. To a certain extent, mind, 
intelligence, thought, etc., are conditions of spirit- 
ual matter in its various forms. Resolvable, they 
are substances, also. Intelligent messages are 
sent by telegraph to and from different parts of 
the world, yet were it not for electricity these 
messages could not be sent. Thought may speak 
to thought, either between persons in the physical 
body, out of it, or both. These thoughts are car- 
ried by electricity, a mental telegraph. Thoughts 
live, though for a time seemingly dormant, and 
are then said to have been forgotten. But what- 
ever is forgotten can .never afterward be recalled. 

Matter, both refined and crude, is composed of 
infinitesimal particles, entities, and the different 
combinations of these particles cause the forma- 
tion of different bodies. In their separate state, 
entities are supposed to be unconscious, yet there 
is as much ground to suppose them to be conscious. 
Every entity has its at(;m of refined matter, called 
life, and this is the secondary cause of its action. 
The soul is something — it is composed of very re- 
fined entities, and changes as man changes. The 
spirit is something — it is composed of refined en- 
tities, and is governed by the owner, that is, 
changes as ho changes. Nothing can ever be 
made into something. - I'here is a higher power 



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than that of mere organic action to produce ma- 
terial bodies, or to change them. The deific fluids, 
electricity, magnetism, ether, ethyline, etc., are 
the very finest known forms of matter, yet above 
them is a much higher, an unknown something 
which causes them to act, and their act of mov- 
mcr oro^anized or unoro^anized matter to become 
tangible and visible bodies, animal, vegetable, or 
mineral, is but the thought-act of this higher 
power. I cannot conceive of anything outside of 
matter, believing that everything that was, is, or 
is yet to be fashioned, is matter in various stages 
of action, condition, combination, analyses, etc. 

The body of man is composed of millions of 
entities, particles, his spirit is composed of yet 
finer particles, and his soul of still finer; and 
soul, spirit, body, are governed b}^ still higher in- 
fluences. His consciousness of time, space, and 
the realities and fancies of life, is caused bv the 
unitizing of the entities composing his spirit, 
wliich manifests itself through his physical body. 
His soul is the unitizing of life principles, and 
sustains spirit and body. Man's bod\% spirit and 
soul are three entire bodily entities, yet each are 
composed of many atoms, or entities, which go to 
make up the whole. All is matter, though ex- 
hibiting many forms and conditions. 



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A crisis is approaching in tbis land, that unless 
prompt measures are taken to ward off the ten- 
dency to niliihsm, will deluge the land in blood. 
The day is drawing very near, and w4io can tell 
the result? Is this land to be drenched in the 
gore of thousands of innocent people, to gratify 
the insatiate longings of a sordid few to gain no- 
toriety, and to further their own base ends ? For- 
bid it God ! What is to be done? Even now the 
cloud grows blacker and blacker over the horizon ; 
but a faint ray of light is seen behind the cloud, 
and if the proper means are taken, the light will 
drive away the clouds, and this nation will be a 
nation of people, and not of paupers. Organiza- 
tions founded on law, the seat of all power, are 
springing up under spirit guidance, and all that is 
now to be done is to organize^ organize. Fight 
lawfully, only, all wrongs in social life, in business 
life, in all avocations of life. Then, when all this 
has been done, let the blow fall — let the dread hour 
come, and the enemies of liberty will crouch like 
starved wolves, and be swept away by the onward 
march of the sons and daughters of liberty ; and 
the Angel of Light will seal the Book of Life with 
the blood of the saviors of the land, and a long 
season of prosperity will ensue. 

Do not be discouraged, do not give up, though 
the way be dreary, and life seems a cross and not 
worth the living. Trials must be overcome, and 
the liberty overshadowing this land has strongly 



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to contend with the army of wrong, which guards 
the aristocratic many, who seem about to seize in 
tlieir powerful grasp the sovereigns of the land — 
the working people. And foreign gold will be 
useless to these moneyed rats, for the ''dollars of 
your daddies" will hold their own, and this nation 
will be itself^ not aping the manners and blooded 
antics of old tottering monarchies. Fire and 
blood, sword and pen, have made this land freer 
than many a one; but the purging is not yet done 
till the star of its eternal progress will have been 
forever set, and its beauteous banner of light, lib- 
erty, and love, be perched on the ramparts of the 
fort made of the hearts of a united people, and 
the whole world w411 bow in profound homage 
and respect to the land, every one of whose peo- 
ple is a savior, a Christ. 

Fear not, O people, liberty is coming, right 
shall triumph, and the wall-eyed dragons of op- 
pression from beyond the seas will be forever 
banished, and universal peace will be attained ; 
leaving the history of lost causes as a memento 
of a non-civilized nation striding toward its end. 



A PROPHECY. 



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A PROPHECY. 



The veil that intervenes between the spiritual 
and the physical worlds is becoming thinner and 
thinner every day, and the time is near at hand, 
O man, when converse can as readily be carried on 
between the two worlds, as is now in the physi- 
cal world. A resident of the spiritual world is 
also a resident of the physical, for the greater 
part of his employment concerns that world. 
Phases of mediumship now vaguely dreamed of, 
will yet be among the beauties of the spiritual 
phenomena, and the Harraonial Philosophy is yet 
to be broader and grander. Spirits are preparing 
to fairly deluge the world with good news from 
the beyond, and the world will be almost surfeited 
with phenomena and philosophy, whether they 
want it or not. The good time is coming, slow 
but sure, and the Sun of Truth is rising above the 
horizon and chasing away into oblivion the ghouls 
of Error that have preyed upon man. Hail 
the day ! 

All hail! 

The light of reason has rent the veil 
Of bigotry's darkness, and 'tis unfurled 
On liberty staffs throughout the world, 
To proclaim throughout eternity 
The reign of universal mental libertv. 

All hail! 

The veil 

IS RENT. 



THE END. 



LIFE IN THE STONE AGE. 



THE 



HISTORY OF ATHARAEL, 



Chief Priest of a Band of Al -Aryans. 



AJV OUTLINE HISTORY OF MAN, 



Written through the Medlumshlp of 

U. G. FIGLEY. 

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DEFIANCE, OHIO; 
U. G. FIGLEY. 

1890. 



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